It Is Too Nice Outside, Go Out And Play In The Garden!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (05:00):
Hm, Welcome to Katy r H Garden Line with Skip Rickards.

Speaker 2 (05:29):
You trip you just watch him as we're going many
protas to see backers gas you almost jumps back.

Speaker 3 (05:48):
Side grass.

Speaker 4 (05:53):
Well.

Speaker 3 (05:53):
Good morning, Good morning gardeners on a good day for gardening.
Every day is again day for gardening. We are glad
you're listening with us this morning, talking with us this
morning too. By the way, if you only give me
a call seven one three two one two k t
r H. Seven one three two one two k t

(06:14):
r H give me a call, we'll be glad to
visit about the things that are of interest to you.
All right now, I want you to answer me one question.
Are you excited about spring? If the answer is yes,
well good because you should be. It's here and this
is just you know, it's it's the launch pad into

(06:36):
the gardening year. Everybody gets excited about spring. And if
you're if the answer that was no, by the way,
I want you to take your your first two fingers
on your right hand and put them over your left
wrist and just I'll give you just a minute. I
want you to feel for a pulse because I'm not
sure you have one. If you if you were a
gardener of any way, shape or form and are not
excited about spring, you might need to have a check up. Well,

(06:58):
I was in my guard and yesterday taking care of
some general cleanup. I've got the vegetable garden completely ready
to go. Now on, you know, all those little spots
that needed a little bit of soil prep or weeding
or mulching or whatever it was. I collect leaves by
the way. Yes, I do.

Speaker 5 (07:17):
I do.

Speaker 3 (07:18):
And that means what does it mean collecting leaves? I
don't mean like pressing them in a book. And now
I have a leaf collection. Oh this is an ash tree,
this is an oak tree. This is no, it's not
that kind. I collect them by the bag. My neighbors
are so kind they put them out for me. And
so when it's going to be trash day, well that's
just my cue that my neighbors who've gone to great
lengths to pick up all those leaves and bag them

(07:40):
up and put them at the curb. The least I
could do is go by there and get them.

Speaker 5 (07:43):
And I do.

Speaker 6 (07:44):
I do.

Speaker 3 (07:45):
I pick them up, bring them home and stash them
into my garden. I use them in the walkways. I
pile them up in the walkways and just walk on
them and they sink down, and you pile more, and
they sink down. You pile more and they sink down.
I honestly think probably if you were to take all
the leaves I put in the walkways between my race beds,

(08:06):
and if you were just if I were to put
them all in at once, it would probably be about
four feet deep. And you're going, well that's impot Well,
if you put them about, you know, eight ten inches
at a time, walk on them, they'll sink down and
what was what would have been about four feet of
leaves by the time it smashed down. It stays wet,
it decomposes. You end up with about eight inches of

(08:29):
really good compost good material. It takes a while, not
something happens fast. But all I have to do is
walk on them when it rains. I remember when I
was in Conroe at the Extension Office is horticulture agent there,
I uh one time totaled the number of bags we
put into a thirty by thirty garden. It's a good

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sized garden, thirty bout thirty and we put three hundred
bags of leaves in that garden in a year. Now
you're thinking there's no way. Well, we didn't put them
all at once. We put them in the walkways, stomped
on them, walked on them. Then when they were ninety
percent decomposed, on their way to compost kind of like
still leaf mold, meaning little chocolately brown, crumbly pieces of leaves,

(09:13):
not fully composed, but essentially almost there. We just put
them in the beds, mix them in the soil, put
them in wheelbarrows. You take them wherever you want in
the garden, wherever you want to add some organic matter
to the soil. You've made it in those walkways, just
take it over there. It works easy is It is
super easy to do, and so I just think of

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it as a way to recycle what the forest floor
does every day of the year. It's a beautiful design
that takes what was once living organic matter, turns it
back into stuff that makes soil really really good. That
is what you want to do. Let's run out to
clear Lake right now, and we are going to talk
to Alan this morning. We can get Old Alan pulled

(09:54):
up here.

Speaker 7 (09:55):
There we go.

Speaker 3 (09:55):
Hey, Alan, welcome to Guarden Line. Good.

Speaker 8 (10:00):
Yes, I live in clear Lake and that's where I
followed Randy Lemon's fertilizer schedule for decades, but calling today
about a different area. We bought a retirement home up
here in Willis on Lake Conroe, and I want to
be a responsible like home owner with respect to the
chemicals I put on my yard to make sure doing

(10:22):
the right thing relative to Like Conroe. So the property
we bought has lots and lots of weeds, and so
I was going to use the ncrofoss weed and feed
fifteen to five ten the one with trimech and just
reondered if that's the right one or so specifically that's
the question, but also if you can give me any

(10:45):
guidance about things to do or not do relative to
the lake.

Speaker 3 (10:50):
Okay, Well, number one, anything that washes into the lake
is not a good thing. And I don't mean just
like lawn products. I mean the period. You don't. You
don't want a lot of nitrogen in the lake, you don't.
That causes algal ballooms and a lot of algae development.
So bottom line, as you put things out in moderation,
you water them in. You just just follow the label

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on things. And like if you're about to get a
what could be a gully washer rain. Don't apply anything
to the lawn right for the rain. Just a little
water moves it into the soil, A lot of water
moves it into the lake, and you don't want to
do that. Nine five weed and feed fifteen five to
ten is fine if you're trying to control a broad
leaf weed, but you're doing it at the right season

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of the year, meaning there are weeds to control that
it would work on. We are getting toward the end
of that time here our weed, our cool season weeds
are going to seed, and you know every day we wait,
there's less benefit to come from applying a product like
that for weed control, because you know you've let the
weeds go all the way to blooming, setting seed, and

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so if you kill them all. Let's say you had
a weed that was just load with seed. Now it's
about to die anyway, and you kill it, well, you
haven't gained a lot because it's already produced seeds for
next fall sprouting, for next winter weeding. And so you
kind of have to look at the weeds. You have
to determine that and be sure, Ellen, if you still

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have some weeds that are at a stage where they
can be killed then you wet the lawn with just
a little bit of water enough to just barely get
the leaves wet, put that granular product on it. It
sticks to the leaves, and give it a couple of
days before you water it in. When it sticks to
the wet leaves, it moved down and kills the weed.
But again, timing is everything, and we're kind of hitting.

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We're hitting toward the end of that time. So you
just need to assess your weeds as to whether it's
getting a little too late or not.

Speaker 8 (12:49):
Okay, great, And then so if I apply it today
just like you said, then I hear what you're saying
with respect to those that are already grown. What's a
good ghost emergent that I should use in a few
weeks A couple of weeks you.

Speaker 3 (13:08):
Mean, well, okay, so the pre emergence, we still are
using those, but don't delay anymore. That would be like
in a nitrofoss world. That'd be like barricade. You watered in.
It prevents the warm season weeds from germinating, so that
that it's time to do that. We kind of have
this overlap. Now are cool season weeds. Every weed you

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see basically is a cool season weed that you're seeing
out there, and so that would be the ones that
the post emergent product would be used on. But as
far as the pre emergent, it's time to do that
for warm season weed. So those arer options. We're kind
of in that overlap in the spring, cool season going out,
warm season coming in.

Speaker 8 (13:50):
Okay with that weed and feed with trimec. Is that
a cool season or a warm season pre emergence?

Speaker 3 (13:58):
It is both. It is both depending on when you
use it. So if you use it, let's say, if
you use it from late January or sometime in January
until now, it's you're treating cool season weeds. If you
were to use it further on into the season, then
we would be controlling warm season weeds because those would
be the weeds it would be growing, so that it

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kills weeds that are up and growing. It's just right now,
the weeds that have leaves that you would apply it
to are all cool season weeds at this point in
the season. If you look at my schedule, it kind
of goes into that a little bit on the one online.

Speaker 8 (14:36):
All righty okay, sounds good, Thank you very much.

Speaker 3 (14:39):
All right, Hey, thanks for the call. Appreciate that you
take care of folks. I'll be right back. Alrighty, we
are back. So for those of you get in a
little confusion on all this. With that last question we're
having regarding post emogens pre emergency, I'm going to go
into that a little bit more a little bit late

(15:00):
in the show. I'm gonna if I wake up a
little bit and kind of unpack that. But we were
talking about the different scene pre emergent post emergent, and
the timing and when you get cool season weeds, warm
season weeds, pre emergent post emergent, it just all starts
to jumble up in your head. One thing that I
do want to mention, we're talking primarily about a post
emergent product there. Barricade is nitrophosis pre emergent product. Barricade

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is the one that prevents weed seeds from establishing successfully.
What happens is you put on your barricade at the
label rate, always at the label rate. If you don't
do enough, it's not going to work. If you do
too much, you're gonna have problems. That's what happens when
you use any kind of a control product. Fungdeside insecticide, herbicide,
whatever it is. You don't follow the label and you're

(15:46):
asking for trouble. So always at the label rate. Yes,
I'm spending a lot of time on that because I
see people think that a teaspoons good, a tablespoon has
to be better.

Speaker 5 (15:54):
It is not.

Speaker 3 (15:55):
Absolutely not follow the label, all right. You put on
barricade watered in. It goes into the soil surface, weed gets, seed,
gets wet, it swells up, it starts to sprout. It
tries to put a root out. Barricade says no, and
you never see that weed. That's how barricade works. Nit
Trush barricades available in a lot of different places. You're

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going to find it at Plantation, Ace Hardware out there
in Richmond, Rosenberg, Langham Creek, Ace hardbur On five twenty nine,
just on the edge of Copperfield, RCW, Nurseries, Lake Hardware
and Angleton Lake Hardware and Clute all places where barricade
other nitruss products can be found. Very important to get
these things properly applied. I'm going to be at Ciena

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Maltch coming up here. It's going to be a while
next weekend, not this weekend, but next weekend. I'll be
at Cenamltch from one to three pm, so I hope
you'll come out and see me. Ciena Maltch is the
one stop shop for all things brown stuff. It's the
one stop shop for the foundation for success with your plants.
I talk about all the time, brown stuff before green stuff,

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and all that means is before you put the plants
in the ground, get the soil ready, get it so
that that plant root hits the ground running. I like
to put it that way. Well. Ciana Maltch is down
south of Houston near Highway six and two eighty eight.
It's on FM five twenty one Sienna Multch dot com.
That's the website. Just put that in, write that down

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Cienamaltch dot com. Find out about it. All of you
down there. Manvil Ro Sharon First Colony, Parallelin, what Suncreek Estates.
That's another one of the communities down there. Iowa Colony
in our colon. Lots of lots of communities in that area.
And this is your one stop shop. And I say
that because you're going to find rosoil there, You're going
to find composts there, You're going to find all kinds

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of mulches, their native hardwood double ground a two inch
screened multa just quality stuff to get things right. And
you're going to find the nutrients that go with that
foundation building and that's microlife, Nelson turf, star medina, nitrofoss azamite, nil,
some plant food jars as well, and then heirloom soils

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airloom soils products also there Cnmulch and again next Saturday,
next Saturday, not that, not today, next Saturday one pm
to three pm. I'll be done at Cenamulch. I hope
you can come down and see me. We're gonna have
a good time. We always do. And I'll tell you this.
I can just promise you this because I know it's
going to happen. You go into Cnamulch and you see

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the way that they treat you, You see how friendly
they are, how hopeful they are. It is it's just
it's what you need. I mean, you walk out and
everything you need right there is going to be ready
to go. They'll deliver within twenty minutes or excuse me,
twenty miles. I guess it depends on how fast you're
driving it. Twenty minutes and twenty miles of the same
thing twenty miles of cinimulch. For a fee, they'll deliver

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the product, or you can just go get it, just
go get it right there. You're listening to garden Line
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r H seven one three two one two ktr H.
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(20:31):
let's head out to the phones. We're going to go
to Magnolia now and talk to Ronnie. Hey, Ronnie, welcome
to garden line. Let's hang on here. We're about to
get Ronnie on the line.

Speaker 9 (20:44):
US.

Speaker 3 (20:45):
Am I able to pick Ronnie up myself?

Speaker 5 (20:47):
Here?

Speaker 3 (20:48):
Hey, Ronnie, Yes, I have.

Speaker 2 (20:53):
A picture to you the other day, and you suggested
we talk about this leap.

Speaker 6 (20:56):
But I've got uh getting eight.

Speaker 3 (21:01):
Cauliflower leaf, Yes, yes, I remember that. So for those listening,
the cauliflower leafs not a real large leaf, but it's
got holes in it and it's got some chewing from
the edges, and Ronnie, I see a couple of things
in the photo you sent me. It looks like a

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beetle damage, a beetle larva damage, but it could be
a caterpillar. It's one of those two beetles are caterpillars.
But my first thought is it's a beatle. My second
observation is that it is older damage. I don't see
on the photo, fresh damage, like it happened that that
day or the night before or something like that. So

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i'm I would first look and see am I getting
continuing to get new holes? Because you know, if the
pest is already gone, there's no sense treating them.

Speaker 8 (21:57):
It looks like it's gone.

Speaker 3 (22:00):
Yeah, okay, well I would I would hold off. Then
those leaves that have holes in them are still making carbohydrates,
They're still helping the plant, So just leave them, leave
them and watch if you see some fresh you go
out in the morning and instead of that brown edge
or yellow edge on the feeding, you see, you know,
a fresh, chewed up edge, then I would say it's

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probably time to figure out which of the two it is.
You're gonna have to turn a leaf over to catch
them in the act. But it's usually it's a caterpillar
on cauliflower, but there's some signs that look a little
bit like a beetle on this particular type of damage.

Speaker 10 (22:38):
Well, can you give me a recommendation of what we
treat it with if depending on which one it is.

Speaker 3 (22:43):
Yes, Yeah, if it's a caterpillar, I would use BT.
BT comes in many brands, many forms. It's a disease
of caterpillars. You spray it. You're gonna have to spray
it periodically. It only lasts a couple of days in
the environment. It's organic, but it works very well and
it doesn't hurt the good insects that are out there

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helping the balance of nature in your garden. So I
like that BT because it doesn't have that unintended consequence
that would be it if it were a beetle, you
would you probably will see some little larva under the
leaf that looked like little alligators oftentimes kind of black, gray,

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brown looking little larva under the leaf. Sometimes you see
it as adults, and those you would have to switch
to just a standard type general purpose insecticide to control those. Okay,
all right, I think yeah, I think, just based on

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all my years of growing growing broccoli and other blue
leaf vegetables. I think if you see thresholds, you may
end up seeing a caterpillar.

Speaker 5 (23:56):
But again here we talked about cabbage and that's what
it was, and I put the BT and it took
care of that.

Speaker 3 (24:06):
Yeah, okay, probably probably is the case. Yeah, just on
these kind of crops, just just watch them, you know,
go out a few days, check them. The first sign
of a problem, that's when you want to spray. If
you spray upward from underneath the leaf, if that's possible, Uh,
that's even better because when the pasts are very young,
they're typically feeding under the leaf and that's where you

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can get get the pesticide to the leaf surface and
get it in their mouth fastest.

Speaker 6 (24:33):
Okay, skip, Thanks a lot, have a good day.

Speaker 3 (24:36):
Thanks sir, appreciate your call very much. You were listening
to garden Line. Our phone number is seven one three
two one two kt r H seven one three two
one two ktr H. We are entering the season where
it warms up for a very long time, and that's
when we begin to shift our fertilization from immediate release

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products to slow release products to give us a gradual
release over the summer season. You know in February even
early March, your lawn is not that actively growing. It
is waking up. It's getting started, whether you live north
or south, as affects at Gainiel from Galveston to Huntsville.
But the bottom line is we're using a faster, immediate

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release right then, and then we switch over to the
slow release. Nitrophoss super Turf is their slow release product.
It's a nineteen four to ten fertilizer that is going
to feed for about four months, about four months of feeding,
so it'll carry you on up until it's about time
to do the Faull fertilization. As we begin to use

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that in the month two three months coming up ahead here,
anytime in there, you're going to put it down. You're
going to get that benefit now by gradually feeding, it
cuts down on mowing rate because you're not getting that
sudden just flush of nitrogen to just push fast, fast growth.
You're getting a gradual feed and that's nice. Nitrofive Superturf's
available in a number of places. You're gonna find it

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at Bearings Hardware, both the one on Bisinette and Renwick.
You go out to Rosenberg m and d hardware'scot it
out there. You go to Ace Hardware City on Memorial
or Plants for All Seasons two forty nine or all
places you're gonna find Nitrofis products like the silver bag,
nitrofive Super Turf nineteen four ten, Super Turf nineteen four ten. Alrighty,

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let's see here we oh. I wanted to mention today
to day after the show, I'm gonna head to the
sci Fier Home Show at the Berry Center. At the
Berry Center that is over in the Copperfield area. It
is on excuse me, five twenty was it five twenty nine?
The road going across there and Barker Cyprus twelve to two.

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I'll be there. I'm gonna have some books on hand.
I'm gonna have other things. I'll tell you borrow more
about that in just a bit. We're back. You're listening
to Garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and I'm
glad you're listening. You'd like to give me a call
seven to one three two one two kt r H

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seven one three two one two KTRH RCW Nurseries, you know,
they're the Garden Center that's there where Tambo Parkway and
Beltway eight come together, real easy access there for the
for all of the things that they have. You know,
they grow their own trees and shrubs and things. They
bring in more roses than oh gosh, anybody, it seems

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like when it comes into the spring season and boy
are they loaded right now. It is just stunning. It's
worth just walking through just to see the roses. I mean, really,
it is beautiful options, beautiful options of all types. You know,
roses come. There's cutflower roses or shrub roses, or miniatures,
there's climbers. There's lots of options. And rcw's got it

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over two hundred varieties of beautiful designer roses that they have.
In fact, let's just think about this. Rcw's time to
get your spring blooming trees too. Right now, red buds
look good. I mean they look and they have a
lot of different types. They even have the kind of
a trailing type of red bud as well, a great
harbinger spring put the red buds out there. And what

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about ornamental peaches? Did you know there are ornamental peaches.
There's one called peppermint, and the flowers look like peppermint candy.
The white, pink and red all mixed like you see
in peppermint candy. That's what a peppermint peach looks like.
It's a good ornamental. Now they also have red barren.
One thing about red barren is red barren peaches are
kind of all it's kind of a pinkish red are

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more reddish than pink. But anyway, it's a beautiful tree.
But it's also edible. It produces a nice edible peach
as well. So you got a two for one that
edible landscape. You're looking for red barren peach trees, they're
in full bloom. They're at RCW Nurses. Just go buy
and check them out. They again are at the corner
of Beltwegh eight Tomball Parkway, rcwnurseries dot Com. Love spring

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bloomin trees. You need something to tell you it's spring
in the landscape. And I think it's great to have
those things out there. You know, when you plan your landscape,
you should think about all four seasons. And I know,
you know, we go by and like I was just
talking about the RCW, the red barn there at RCW.
It's a beautiful plant. I wanted my landscape and you

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should do that. That's good but what is your landscape?
What's bloomin in the summer? You know there's things like
bytex At bloom in the summer. What's blooming in the fall?
What kind of shrubs, perennials, trees, ornamental grasses are you
going to mix together evergreens, deciduous to create that parade
that goes twelve months out of the year through your garden.

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I know in the winter time it's a little more
challenging to find things then, but we do have the
beautiful exfoliating bark, things like kreat myrtle barks, especially the
cinnamon colored type bark like natchez and others. Plan your
landscape with all four seasons in mind, and we have
plants in our area here that can do just that.

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That's just a word to the wise. In spring, everything
wants to bloom. Robin Williams said, Spring is nature's way
of saying, let's party, And it is it really is.
But what about summer? What about fall? What about winter? Yeah,
think about that as you're doing your landscape building. Ace
Hardware stores are all over our region. You can find

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your store by going to ACE Hardware Texas dot Com,
Acehardwaretexas dot com and ACE is set up right now
for you to turn your outdoor living area into a
place you want to hang out. That would include things
like a barbecue pit, a string of lights across the
patio for those early evenings. You know, as the weather
warms up more and more, those evening hours are going

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to be more and more important for enjoying the outdoors.
ACE Hardware has got you covered for that. Don't your
lawn to look good? You hear me talk about all
these fertilizers? Where are they? They're at ACE Hardware store.
Do you need to control insects, weeds, diseases? What do
you got? Ace Hardware has got you covered. There is
many There are many ACE Hardware stores and if you

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go to ACE Hardware Texas dot com, Ace Hardware Texas
dot com, you can find the stores near you. Stores
like out in Deer Park, your part Lumber, Ace Hardware, Cyprus,
ACE Hardware on Jones Road, Rockport, Ace which is in Rockport, Texas,
K and M out in a Taska Seed or actually
k and M a Taska Seeds to actually add a

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humble address Single ranch As on Mason Road and Katie
All Star Ace in Spring on Rayford Road, and then
K and m ACE on Kingwood driving Kingwood. It's easy,
easy to find an Ace Hardware near you, and when
you go in, you're going to find what you need.
Oen By the way, check out the barbecue bets. Speaking

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of outdoor living, boy, do they have some awesome options
at your local ice hardware store. I this yesterday. I
was working in some areas of my lawn. I had
some weeds that came up and just to I've been
ignoring them because there's kind of here and there, and
it kind of hit a point where you know, they're
loaded up with seeds. So in this case, rather than

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spran them, I'm just down on my hands and knees
doing some weed pulling and it it's not that hard.
You know, most of the weeds that we deal with,
they come up pretty easily when the soil is moist,
and so I filled a couple of five gallon buckets
in one little area. I've got a neighbor whose weeds
encroaching my lawn a lot. They have a pretty much

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the Smithsonian of weed species in their yard, like every
one of them, and so as they get close to
the edge and start slinging seeds on my side of
the yard. I end up dealing with them right there.
But anyway, I was pulling up some of those getting
getting things ready to go. I'm about to do a
signal nificant mow down on the lawn. I put it

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off a load this year. The grass is still crawling along,
at least mine is. It's not. It's greening, but not
just taking off growing. So it's time for me to
mow back, and I'm going to do that. I'm gonna
cut it back, Saint Augustine. I'm going to cut back
to about two inches high and get all that dead material.
I'm not throwing it away. That's one reason too, why

(33:26):
I pulled the weeds up. I don't want to have
sea weed, seeds and what I gather from the lawn.
But I'm going to mow it back, get all the
dead material out of there so when the fresh grass
comes through it looks good. Now that doesn't mean scalp
it down to the ground. Okay, Saint Augustine, you don't
do that to Saint Augustine. But it does mean cut
it way back, and so I'll use all that material
in my walkways. Remember I was talking about walkway composting.

(33:48):
I'll use it as mulch in beds. Once those leaves,
grass leaves, or blades dry a little bit, they're really
good for a mulch in beds works really well for that.
That's the next step coming up. I in my vegetable garden,
I was just looking at I had some canister of
the nutri Star by Nitroposs. That's the Nutra Stars, the

(34:12):
line of fertilizers that come in the jars, clear jars,
screwed up lid for specific plants. You know, there's a
nutri Star for azalea, and in fact for all acid
loving plants. So if you've got blueberries or camellias, or
dogwoods or holly's or you know, the whole nine yards,
that is the one you would use for vegetables. Nutri

(34:32):
Star vegetable garden. There are many other nutri Stars, but anyway,
it's nice. This vegetable garden has five different sources of nitrogen.
So each nitrogen source releases at a little different time.
It's different things cause that nitrogen to be turned loose
so your plants can have it. And by putting five together,

(34:52):
Nelson has created a really good fertilizer Blend for vegetable gardens,
and this is true of their other nutra star in
the jars that you use, you and find them many places.
You'll also find around town. There's about a dozen places
where you can take your Nelson jars in and you
can refill them. Saves a little bit on the fertilizer
and avoids just buying more plastic to throw out there

(35:15):
into the landfills or the environment. It just makes sense
on both regards. Well, I'm gonna take a little break here.
I wanted to remind you again today sci Fiir Home
and Garden Show at the Berry Center on Barker Cyprus
in northwest Houston. I'll be there from twelve to two.
I'll have some of my books on hand. I will

(35:35):
have some handouts for you. I'll be giving a talk
on spring gardening tips and answering your questions till the
cows come home. If you want to bring me samples,
if you want to bring me photos, that makes it
even easier for me to really give you a helpful,
good answer when I can see what it is we're
talking about. I'll be right back, folks, don't go away.

Speaker 11 (35:56):
All right, lit.

Speaker 3 (35:58):
Pure Prairie League this morning for your Saturday morning. You're
listening to garden Line, We're here to answer your questions
at seven one three two one two ktr h. It's
all about the soil. It's all about the soil. I'll
say it to the cows come that second time I
said that. Today, I remember Gracho Marx, Gratcho Marx. Some

(36:19):
of you do remember me. He was actually even a
lot before my time, but he was on the TV.
I didn't grow up listening to him, but he is hilarious.
He said, I'll dance with you to the cows come home.
That was his deal. Nature's Way Resources is the place
you go to get quality soil lens. You can go
pick it up there, you can have them deliver it.

(36:40):
You can find their bags around town at various garden
centers and places. They have rose soil, they have leaf
mole composts, they have all kinds of By the way,
they also have the fungal based compost on sale every Friday.
It's a great way to get a high quality organic
product at a lower price. Now that when I say
it's on sale, I mean and off the bags of it.

(37:01):
The forty pound bags of fungal based Compost Excellent Compost
twenty percent off if you buy it by the bulk.
That is a huge savings. Nature's Way Resources, you just
go to Nature's Way Resources dot com Nature's Way Resources
dot com or give them a call nine three six
two seven three twelve hundred. They're up there toward Conro
Off forty five and it's just a great place to go.

(37:24):
And one thing I like about Nature's Way, well, a
lot of different things I like about Nature's Way, but
one specific thing is they always have quality products. They
always take their time to do things right. Okay, when
you go to Nature's Way, you know you're going to
get a product that was done right. They build it right.
And by the way, their garden Festival is coming up,

(37:46):
the Spring Garden Festival, and so you don't want to
miss this is it's very important to see that. It
is on two day today from eight am to two pm,
so it's going to be going on pretty quick here.
But it's there's plant sales, there's food, drinks and drinks,
there's local vendors, plant talks, there's three differ talks through

(38:07):
the day on good good information. And it's at Sherbrooke
Circle and Conroe. So go up forty five north, turn
right where fourteen eighty eight comes into the left. You
turn right and you go there. You hit Sherbrook Circle,
turn right again and you're at Nature's Way Resources. Quite
a shindig they're having up there today. I've been to
them before. They're wonderful. Ninety seven three excuse me, nine

(38:29):
three six two seven three twelve hundred nine three six
two seven three twelve hundred. I was looking at some
of the the plants and things that they have at Buchanans,
Buchanans Native Texas plants, and it just pretty much everything
you want, you know, talking about spring bloomers. Hot a
native spring bloomer, the Mexican buckeye that is a beautiful

(38:50):
old thing comes out with spring blooms before the leaves
even really, you know, get going good. And so you
have these gorgeous pink blooms and then here come the
leaves right behind them. It's a nice plant. Of course,
Buchanans has all kinds of natives. They have everything you
could possibly want when it comes to making your place better.
And nobody has a selection of natives that Buchanans does.

(39:12):
By the way, you might want to make a note
on April nineteenth. Saturday April nineteenth is the Easter egg
Hunt at Buchanan's Native Plants on Eleventh Street in the Heights. Saturday,
April nineteenth. You want to be part of that. Eight
thirty in the morning till ten thirty in the morning
the Easter Egg Hunt at Buchanans Native Plants. Our phone

(39:36):
number here if you'd like to give me a call.
Seven one three two one two k t r H.
Seven one three two one two.

Speaker 9 (39:41):
K t r H.

Speaker 3 (39:43):
I have a vining sort of apothus looking plant. It's
a it's actually a type of philodendron. Then I'm about
to repot it got lanky. I let it get dry
a couple of times it drops some older leaves. Now
you got all these strings, you know where you have
a section of iron without any leaves on it, and
I'm about to clean that up and repot it. I'll
do that. I want to do a video that one

(40:04):
I do anyway, when I do jungle in jungle Land
by Airloom Soils. It is a product excuse me by Nitropos.
I'm sorry, I switching out here. Nitrovos jungle Land is
the kind of product that is designed to hold water
but also to drain access. That's what you want out
of a potting mix. You want it to hold water

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so you're not water in it every day, but you
want it to drain well so it's not water logged in,
soggy and roots or rotting. And Jungle End from Nitropos
is that kind of product. There's the outdoor version, which
is their flour and vegetable planting soil your outdoor containers.
And then there's the indoor version jungle End water Savor
potting soilt. It's got crystals in it so that when

(40:48):
you forget the water, it is a little more forgiving.
It holds onto some extra water in those crystals to
keep your plans from going into too much drought stress
until you get back to them and do some watering
for that. Now, nitro foss products are widely available. You're
going to find them at places like in Chanton Forest
down in Richmond Rosenberg area. You're going to find them

(41:08):
at Ace Hardware Single Ranch at the Aspas Ace and
the Woodlands, and they even carry nitrofoss products up there
at the tomball Arborgate, the place that you can get those. Anyway,
I'm going to repot that, and I think I will
do a little video of what I'm doing there, because
some of you that's happened, you've had that pathos. They

(41:29):
got long and lanky and stringy, and what do you do.
I'll talk about that when I do the little video
on repotting. I'll try to get that posted to social
media this this week. Let's see, Oh, wild Birds Unlimited.
I just yesterday morning, I was I have a robin

(41:50):
that for some reason wants to sing before it gets
daylight outside, and that robin just sits out there like
a cacophony of a solo in the mornings and just
goes to town. Wildbirds Unlimited is the place you go
to bring in those kind of birds to take care
of the birds that you have. It's nesting season and

(42:11):
Wildbirds Unlimited has a special nesting blend. They call it
the Nesting Superblend. What it's got, It's got protein in
it that is very important for birds as they're raising young,
as they're building nest and raising young. It has calcium
in it, which is important for not only building the
skeleton of the bird, but also when they're laying eggs.

(42:33):
You need lots of calcium to form that eggshell around them.
And Nesting super Blend high quality product you bite in
a seed cylinder, you know, the little pressed formed cylinder
that the birds peck the seeds out of. Or you
can just get it in a loose bag of seed,
which is the way I use it myself. I got
the Nesting super Blend in my feeders right now and

(42:55):
it is time to do that. They also have feeders
and bird houses and everything you can want. My new
hopper feeder, I love it. Beautiful recycled plastic feeder. It's
called the Classic Eco Tough hopper feeder. It works well.
It's got an extra wide roof on it. And the
nice thing about that is you get a little bit

(43:15):
of rain and it's not so likely to get your
bird seed wet. We got some raine the other day.
I looked at my feeder and it's all good, all
good to go with that wide roof wild Birds Unlimited.
Six stores in the Houston area Clare Lake, Cyprus, Houston
South on bel Air Boulevard Southwest and Houston West on
Memorial Drive, Kingwood, Texas and Paarland, Texas go to wild

(43:39):
Birds Unlimited here's the website WBU dot com Forward Slash Houston.
WBU dot com Forward Slash Houston. I love going to
wild Birds stores. Our phone number here is seven one
three two one two ktr H. If you'd like to

(43:59):
give us a call, we talk about the things that
are of interest to you. I was visiting with folks
at anti Rosenporium a while back, and you know, they
breed their own. They breed roses themselves there. They have
too new that they just released. They're exclusively available at
Antique Rosenbery because they're developed bread at antiqu rosen Perum.

(44:21):
On's called glass slipper, once called cupids sweetheart, Glass slipper
and cupids sweetheart. Now when you go to Antique Rosenporium,
you know you're gonna get roses. I mean they are roses,
but they are so much more. This is a must
visit destination. And in the springtime it's of course there's
roses as far as I can see, but also native plants, herbs, flowers,

(44:46):
fruit trees, house plants. Even there, they got some events
coming up that are important. They're already into the spring.
Children in the Garden workshop. They did the one on
March nineteenth. The next one is March twenty six then
April second and ninth or two more. They start at
ten am. Kids ages three to ten, three to ten,

(45:07):
you have to go to the website and get some tickets,
So go to their website Antique Roseanmporium dot com, get
the tickets and bring your kiddos over there. Also, on
March twenty sixth and twenty ninth, they're going to do
a Ladybug release. Yeah, they have a whole bunch of
Lady Beatles. I'll turn them loose, kids out a great
time of being able to do that. They're both at

(45:28):
ten am, well actually March twenty six at eleven, March
twenty nine to ten and two. But again with all
these things, go to the website. Go to the website,
follow them on social media. Their email newsletters are wonderful
way to stay up to date. Because on April nineteenth
at ten they're going to have their Easter egg hunt.

(45:48):
That's something you don't want to miss. On April twenty sixth,
you need to write this one down. April twenty six
ten to three is the Rose and Herb Conference. They
got a whole day's worth of educational seminars and workshops
planned Antique Roseemporium dot com. They are roses, but they're
so so much more if you'd like to give them

(46:08):
a called nine seven nine eight three six fifty five
forty eight nine seven nine eight three six five five
four eight. I did a video that I put on
Instagram and Facebook this week using Medina's has to grow
six twelve six. You've heard me talk about it before.

(46:31):
I was planning a salvia salvia missedic spires. One of
my favorite salvia is a blue blooming salvia, nice gorgeous
blue spikes on a very very compact and upright plant.
I love that plant anyway. Putting it in the ground
using Medina has to grow six twelve six. Put it
in a watering can. Water my plan in. On the video,

(46:54):
I was telling you about ten days later, which now
is about seven days later. I'm going to go in
and I'm going to do it again and then again
even about a week, ten days, fourteen days, doesn't matter
exactly how long, just three times, three times you want
to soak your new plan in with Medina has to
grow six to twelve six. And when you do that,
you're putting that high phosphorus content down in the roots,

(47:15):
which are so important for development. It's like many Medina products.
You will find them everywhere it works. Go check it
out on Facebook and Instagram. By the way, if you
don't follow our Facebook and Instagram accounts, it's garden Line
has a Facebook page and on Instagram it's what's it
called a garden Line with Skip on the Instagram page.

(47:38):
All right, I'm heading to the Seifier home show at
the Berry Center today. I'll be there from twelve to two.
I'll start off with a talk on spring gardening tips.
I hope you'll come and see me. It's a northwest
Houston Berry Center on Barker, Cyprus. There pretty close to
where five twenty nine comes in, somewhere near that area.
I'll be also giving away products. I got some products

(47:58):
to give away. I also still have some of my
books on hand. I'll be answering your gardening questions and
we're gonna have a good time. It's a great home
show too.

Speaker 1 (48:07):
By the way, Welcome to Katie r. H Garden Line
with Skip Richard.

Speaker 11 (48:26):
Trim.

Speaker 2 (48:28):
Just watch him as so many good things to see
boys again.

Speaker 3 (48:44):
Not a sorry, All right, folks, Welcome back to the
Garden Line. We are glad to have you with us.
And by the way, if you'd like to give me
a call seven one three two one two KTR seven
one three two two KTRH folks at Garden Line are

(49:05):
having a program that I wanted to tell you about,
by the way, it is March twenty fifth at ten am.
March twenty fifth, ten am, and the program is the
care and Maintenance of Succulents for the Golf Coast. Now
Angela Chandler, who you all know. Angela has been doing
gardening advice and teaching here in this area for a

(49:25):
very long time. The care and maintenance of succulents in
the Golf Coast, Angela is going to come in. By
the way, Angela is the operator of the Garden Academy.
It's a it is a very nice educational information online
that you can see. She partners with Arbrogate on a
lot of their educational activities and things. Well, first of all,

(49:45):
the event will be on March twenty fifth at ten
am at the Arborgate Garden Center at the Arburgate Garden
Center and it's cost ten dollars per person and if
you want to reserve a spot. It's limited and it
will fill up. The class is limited to forty people
well two eight one three five one eighty eight fifty
one two eight one, three five, one eighty eight fifty one.

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That's the Arborgate phone number. Now you can go to
the website and learn more about it. Go to their
social media learn more about it. What you're going to
find is that you will learn all about different kinds
of succulents. They're a very diverse group. You know, we
say succulents like we're talking about one thing, but it's
extremely diverse group of very interesting plants. My wife and

(50:30):
I are by the Arborgate about a week ago and purchased,
you know, some different kinds of succulents for her collections.
Of the succulents there, they come in an array of
colors and shapes and sizes. Some of them have beautiful
blooms on them. Several species are hearty, and some are
even a good source of pollen or nectar rather for
the pollinators. You can grow succulents and containers, you know,

(50:53):
you do it, put them in the ground, depends on
the succulent. But that's what you're going to learn about
you're going to learn all about them from at the
Arborgate on March twenty fifth to ten am. But don't
just show up. Only forty spaces. It's ten dollars per
person called two eight one three five, one eighty eight
fifty one to save your spot. And when you're at Arburgate,

(51:15):
make sure you have an empty car because you're going
to load it up. There is so boy, we were
out there just walking through and looking at all the color.
In fact, that's where I got the the salvia mystic
spires that I was talking about earlier. Just planting. It's
a great plant. Well, you're going to see so much
you can't live without when you're out there, which is typical.

(51:35):
Just make sure and go home with the food, the soil,
and the composts that are called organic food, complete, organic
soil complete, Organic compost complete. It's a one two three
simple system Arburgates put together and it works. It works
brown stuff before green stuff. Go home with those three
bags when you go home with the plant. That's kind
of how it works. Let's head out to wood Forests

(52:01):
now and we're gonna speak to Ben this morning. Hey Ben,
welcome to gardener Line.

Speaker 5 (52:06):
Good morning, sir, how are you?

Speaker 3 (52:09):
I'm well, thank you good.

Speaker 5 (52:12):
My question is I have say augustin grass my yards
and planted almost three years. It's been doing real well
last two years, especially last year. Now this year it's
soon's like it's coming in splotchy. And I put the
Imperial in about two and a half free weeks ago
and the yard still looks like it's real patchy Am

(52:34):
I just impatient or what?

Speaker 6 (52:38):
Well?

Speaker 3 (52:39):
Just give it some time and we needed to warm
up a little bit. I've got my lawn is moving
kind of slow too right now, and it'll kick in
here as the weather warms up, it'll speed up. You've
done the right thing. Got the Imperial down. The nutrients
are in the soil. As those roots, you know, begin
to speed up, they'll take it up faster and you

(53:00):
you'll see an increasing rate of growth as it gets going.

Speaker 5 (53:04):
Okay, I was thinking about moment again today, just you know,
because it's in the green part that is green's kind
of tall, and I have a little bit of the
Imperial left, and since it's been about three weeks, I
was thinking about putting some more of that down. Would
that hurt my yard?

Speaker 12 (53:22):
Well?

Speaker 3 (53:23):
The bottom line is The total amount you put on
of imperial is about seven pounds per thousand square feet,
So yes, sir, if you put less than that, you
can put more. If you've already put that, don't add more.

Speaker 13 (53:34):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (53:34):
It's you know, when when the soil is colder, the
fertilizer doesn't make the grass grow, It just helps green
it up as it begins to take up the nutrients.

Speaker 5 (53:43):
So, okay, should I wait till end of April to
put in a super turb?

Speaker 3 (53:52):
Yes? Yes? How long ago did you do the imperial?

Speaker 14 (53:55):
Did you say about the fourth.

Speaker 6 (54:00):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (54:01):
I might.

Speaker 3 (54:01):
I might even go a little past the end of April,
because if you put down the right amount of imperial,
you you could go six weeks before you put down
the super turf. Okay, yeah, all right, just let us
stretch out that way. The super turf will carry you
a little further that way.

Speaker 6 (54:18):
You know.

Speaker 5 (54:18):
Okay, all right, good luck with thank you, thank you much.

Speaker 3 (54:24):
You bet you bet appreciate that call. Yeah, night fuss Imperial.
That's their fifteen five to ten. It was created, you
know that ratio researchers throughout the South, the turf researchers
TEXA A and M and other places, uh fifteen, five
to ten or but basically it's a it's a three
one two ratio. That's that's what matters. Okay, And so

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you put it down, grass takes it up, Grass grows healthy,
and you get the early green up. And that that's
why we use an immediate release early on. You're gonna
find night Fuss products at Ace Hardware, Citium, Memorial Drive.
You're going to find in Plants for All see nine.
You go to M and D and Rosenberg, you're gonna
find that kind of product. You go to Plants for
All Seasons, you know, right there on two forty nine,

(55:09):
they're gonna have it. They carry a lot of different
things out there, even D and D feeding Tomball. It's
a good place to get nitrofoss products. Let's go to
West Houston now and talk to Karen.

Speaker 7 (55:21):
Hello, Karen, good morning.

Speaker 15 (55:24):
I pinned my ochre seeds a little too early. I
believe they've all germinated. They're seven inches tall, they're very healthy.
But when can I transplant them and put them in
the ground.

Speaker 3 (55:40):
Well, Okra likes warm weather, and so if you put
it out now, it's gonna kind of sit there. Okay,
it's these forty degree nights. It does not like those.
So we got you got a little bit of a
head start on it, so you can do a couple
of things. You can put it out. But if we
can get past, get these weather warmed up a little bit,
we have to cole front come through. Let's warm up

(56:02):
a little bit from that, and then go ahead and
put them out there and see how they do. It's
just it's not any happier out there on a night
in the forties than I would be laying on the Oh,
well you could how many you got, Well, I've got
it does and oh okay, yeah, well that's not too many.

(56:24):
You can bump them up. You want to go a
little further, you can do that. That's not a problem.
If you've got good light for them. That's the thing.

Speaker 15 (56:30):
They need light, okay. And approximately when should I put
them in the ground.

Speaker 3 (56:39):
Well, generally with okra, I'm not doing a lot of
okra planting until it warms up quite a bit. No,
not not on okra. I'm gonna probably plant my okra
about the maybe the first of April would be a
good time to go ahead and start with that. But

(56:59):
if you if you go a little earlier. It's okay.
It just depends on the weather. You know, maybe the
weather will cooperate, it'll warm up and you'll be just fine.

Speaker 15 (57:08):
Okay, thank you, Okay, god bye.

Speaker 3 (57:11):
All right, Karen, thank you.

Speaker 7 (57:13):
Enjoy that.

Speaker 3 (57:13):
Enjoy that. Oka appreciate that. Houston Powder Coaders. I was
looking at some outdoor furniture they did. It was metal
furniture and it was all kind of it was green
originally painted, but I just was looking bad and they
got a hold of it, and I mean beautiful, bright,
shiny hunter green, way better than painting. Houston Powder Coats

(57:35):
is the biggest powder coder in this region and they
are quick to turn around a quote. You can take
a picture and email that picture of your furniture to
sales at Houstoncoders dot com. They'll give you a quote
quote on it. They will pick up and deliver here
in the greater Houston area. And when I say furniture,
I don't mean just furniture. I mean you've got a
wall hanging that's metal out there that you want a

(57:56):
coat and stop the rust. You know where rust is
coming down? Call them two eight one six seven, six
thirty eight eighty eight or go to the website houstoncoders
dot com. Houston excuse me, Houston powder Cooders dot com,
Houston powdercoders dot Com. Welcome back to Guardline folks. Glad

(58:20):
to have you with us. Glad to have you with us. Hey,
if you have not put out an asmite application on
your lawns in the last year, it's time to go
ahead and get that done. You can put asmit down anytime.
It's not the kind of fertilizer like the standard fertilizers
that just you put it down and all the nitrogen
makes the long green and start to grow fast. Asmite

(58:41):
is a bank account nutrient, Okay, it is essential for
plant growth. Micronutrients are essential for plant growth, but you
put them in the bank account. You put them in
the soil so that when the grass wants to grow
three hundred and sixty five days out of the year,
that nutrient is available there as the grass needs it
to take up those tracemenunerals. That is important and you

(59:02):
can do asmat at any time. You can do it
the same day you fertilize. Just don't mix them in
the same hopper. Put them on separate applications. It works well.
A forty four pound forty four pound bag covers about
six to twelve thousand square feet. You can go to
Azmite Texas dot com find out more about it, or
you pretty much go anywhere you shop for gardening stuff
and find azamite. There. You hear me talk about gardening

(59:22):
places on garden Line, they're probably going to carry as
mite because it is very widely available. We're going to
head now out and talk to Gary. Hello, Gary, welcome
to garden Line.

Speaker 12 (59:33):
Good morning.

Speaker 5 (59:34):
How are you doing.

Speaker 3 (59:36):
I'm well, sir. How can we help today?

Speaker 14 (59:38):
Very well? I have a jennifer ground cover around a
pine tree and it's full of Permuta grass. Now, so
is there an option other than digging it out, which
is going to be a challenge, or.

Speaker 3 (59:53):
What you don't have to make it?

Speaker 5 (59:55):
No?

Speaker 3 (59:55):
No, there are grass only killers on the market. Grass
only killers. Okay. So have you ever been to my
website before?

Speaker 7 (01:00:05):
But I have not.

Speaker 3 (01:00:08):
Okay, that's all right. It's gardening with Skip dot com.
Gardening with Skip dot Com. And when you get there,
there's a publication a thing that says all publications and
you click on that, okay, and one of the publications
is called Herbicide Products to use with skip'sweed wiper. Now

(01:00:30):
you're not You can use the weed wiper for this application,
but I'm sending you there because of the products. If
you look down the list, it has the products you
use to control woody weeds and vines, the products that
you use to control broadleaf weeds or wild onions. There's
also a row for grasses and grass like weeds, and

(01:00:50):
there's three products on there. One of them or two
of them are kill only grasses, so if you spray
them over that groundcover, it's going to kill the berme
but not the groundcover. The third product is the third
ingredient is glifas. That will kill grass, but it will
also kill whatever you get it on, so you don't
want to use that kind of product on there, Okay,

(01:01:13):
So just just go to that website. If you want
to write down a couple of chemical names, I'm going
to give you the first few letters rather than spelling
out the whole long name. But if it begins with
fl uaz flu as flu a Z, or if it
begins with the boy's name SETH S E T H,

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those two ingredients kill grasp but not broad leaf plants.
And you can spram over the top.

Speaker 12 (01:01:42):
Wonderful.

Speaker 14 (01:01:42):
You have saved me a lot of work.

Speaker 3 (01:01:45):
I hope, so, I hope. So good luck with that, Gary,
thank you, thank you. Yes, you take care, You take
care for sure. Moss Nursery done in Seabrook. I love
going down there. You know, Moss is it's not just
your average garden center. It is first of all, that
it's been around like seventy years. I think it's family operated,

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been around forever. Eight acres. You wander through everything you
could possibly want out there, you're going to find it.
Moss Nursery. It's a great place, a great place to
go and find all the different things that you're looking
for for your plants. So if you're looking for hanging baskets,
you're not going to find a better place than that.
If you're looking for landscape color, okay, what do you want?

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Do you want porto laca? Do you want pentas? Do
you want pogonias, binca and patients marigolds, day lilies, plumbago?
They have all that and a lot a lot more.
They always stay so stocked up that I don't know,
with eight acres, I don't know where they find a
place to put all the stuff that they have coming
in there, but succulents, Oh gosh, their selection is awesome.

(01:02:55):
Their houseplant selection is unbelievable, awesome. You want vegetables, do
you want herbs? What do you want? They've got it
at Moss Nursery. It's on Toddville Road in Seabrook. Toddville
Road in Seabrook. Moss Nursery dot com. Moss is spelled
m aas Moss Nursery dot com. Here's a phone number

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two eight one four seven four twenty four eighty eight
to eight one four seven four twenty four eighty eight.
Allow yourself some time, because you're going to start wandering
and uh, well, let's just put it this way. It's
gonna take you a while because it is a wonderful
place to wander and see all kinds of things that

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you didn't expect to get to see. We are going
to go to Richmond now and talk to Alex. Hey, Alex,
welcome to garden Line. Hekskip, good morning, Good morning.

Speaker 5 (01:03:51):
Hey, I've got a question.

Speaker 16 (01:03:52):
How can we help I'm going to airy in top
dress next month, but at about the same time, it's
gonna be time for my silver bag ason mite and
the second application of barricade.

Speaker 5 (01:04:04):
Is there a particular order.

Speaker 13 (01:04:05):
To do that in.

Speaker 3 (01:04:09):
It doesn't matter except for the barricade. I would wait
until after you do all that, all the air raiding,
and then put the barricade down. You can put the
top dress on top of a barricade, but when you
air rate, you end up pulling plugs the sod or
of soil up and dropping them on the surface. And

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those plugs could have weed seeds in them. So if
you put the barricade down and then throw dirt on
top of it, essentially you kind of got up above
the barricade when you did that. So I would generally
wait and do the barricade after the air raiding. But
the rest of it, it doesn't really matter.

Speaker 16 (01:04:48):
Is there any benefits to air rating and then dropping
the fertilizer basically on top to any sort of deeper
penetration or anything.

Speaker 3 (01:04:58):
Yeah, you do get a little bit, you know, get
a little rain, and it'll wash down in the holes
more readily. So you could do that. You could, you
could airate, you could fertilize, you could barricade and then
water it in you want, you have to water after
the barricade to about half inch just to get it
in the sole surface, and then the compost top dressing

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could be done anywhere in that mix too. I just
wouldn't put the compost down and then the barricade, because
you're wanting your barricade to get to the soil, you know,
and so you don't want to have a layer of
composts that you just put on and then put the
barricade on top. I mean, it's not night and day,
but we're talking about what's best, and that that would
be what is best.

Speaker 16 (01:05:42):
Yes, sir, well, I'm glad I called hey, if you
got time for one more quick one, I've got a
couple of low spots.

Speaker 3 (01:05:46):
Sure.

Speaker 16 (01:05:48):
Do you have any recognitions for sort of leveling mixes.
I think Randy used to say it was sand mixed
with composts, but I don't remember.

Speaker 3 (01:05:57):
You could do that. You could do a same compost mix.

Speaker 6 (01:06:00):
I know that.

Speaker 3 (01:06:02):
Airlom Soils makes a bulk lawn mix that used. It's
got a it's it's a compost sound mix, and it's
used to put out spread out lower you know, prepare
the soil for sodding, or if you got some lower
areas you want to put it in. You can do
that too.

Speaker 13 (01:06:18):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:06:18):
And that's from the folks at Heirloom, which they're up
in kind of a cat corner from here across the Euston.
They're up in the porter area, but they deliver all over.

Speaker 6 (01:06:27):
Yes, sir, we'll skip.

Speaker 16 (01:06:28):
I appreciate your time, Thank you very much.

Speaker 3 (01:06:31):
Yeah, you know what I'm sitting here thinking, Richmond, you
you ought to call them over at Siena Mulch because
they do carry I know they carry some heirloom products,
but ask them what they have for that. They may
have just a good sandy loom sole top soil mix
that you could put on as well. But Ciena Mulch
done in Siena is not too far away from you.
All right, Yes, sir, thanks for the call. Appreciate that.

(01:06:56):
Let's see here all right, Uh fixed nice lab foundation,
I talk about them. I know you don't want to
think about foundation problems, right, I mean, nobody does. But
we have soil that is heavy clay that when it
gets wetted, swells. When it gets dry a shrinks, and
that movement creates problems. I mean, go through some neighborhoods

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in Houston downtown, whatnot it's like you're driving across the
top of the rocky mountains going down the street because
there's so much heaving and damage even to the streets,
and we get water line breaks. That's how powerful soil
movement can be down in those areas, sidewalks, driveways. Of course,
your home foundation, cracks in the foundation. We normally run

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across foundation problems when we see cracks in the brick
outside or cracks in the sheet rock inside, typically starting
at the corner of a window and moving down or
at the corner of a door and moving up into
the sheet rock. Those kind of movements mean something's going
on a sticky doors the same way. Just call Tye,
Just call Ti Strickland call them two eight one two

(01:07:59):
five five forty nine forty nine. Call him. He's been
doing this twenty three years, honest on time, fixes it
right and charges a fair price. I mean that that's
the whole nine yards. That's what you're looking for. Fixmyslab
dot com. That's a website. You can go see it.
Check it out. Fixmslab dot com. Two eight one two
five five forty nine forty nine. Don't be an ostrich

(01:08:21):
and I'll stick your head in the sand go ahead
and have them look at it. It may be that
nothing is needed, or if it is, i'll tell you that,
but it's not gonna get better. And so go ahead
and give him a call. Two eight one, two five
five forty nine, forty nine. I hope you get it
all straightened out. I'm going to take a little break here. Hey,

(01:08:43):
I'm going to be at the Sifair Home Show at
the Berry Center. Si Fair Home Show at the Berry
Center today from twelve to two. All of you guys
up there, northwest, in fact, wherever you want. Usually when
we go to these events, we have people come from
way away, and that's good. Come on over. I'm going
to talk about spring gardening tips. I'm going to answer
your gardening questions. We'll be doing diagnosis, We'll be doing identification,

(01:09:08):
we you know, whatever. You need to have a better place.
That's kind of like on garden line. We want you
to have a bountiful garden. We want you to have
a beautiful landscape, and we want you to have more
fun in the process. And I promise you we'll have
fun today. I'm gonna be giving away some products, We're
going to be doing a lot of other things. I've
got some books on hand and things there as well.
Come on by and see me. Look forward to seeing

(01:09:28):
you in just a bit. What a bit being twelve
o'clock noon today, Welcome back, Welcome back to Guarden Line. Folks. Hey,
glad to have you with us today. We talk a
lot about fertilizing and the time to fertilize, and this
and that fertilizer and all that on guard Line. One

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thing that I think you ought to consider is a
product that micro Life makes called Microlife Humates Plus. It's
a zero zero four fertilizer. It's in a purple bag,
makes it easy to find. Purple bag. Now HU makes
plus the zero four. Yeah, it has a little nutrient
in it, but we're not putting it down just for
the nutrient. We're putting it down because humus is the

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final decomposition state of organic matter. And when you put
down humates, what you're doing is putting down essentially concentrated
compost in a bag. You're taking it at that final
stage where over time in nature organic matter becomes compost,
becomes soil, and it becomes humus essentially and builds the soil.

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It makes the soul better. It makes us structure better,
It makes its ability to take in water, to absorb
and hold on to nutrients, to stimulate organic activity in
the microbes that are in the soil. Humans. Plus does
all of that, and you can apply it as much
as you want. Once or twice a year's fine. You
put it down at the same time you fertilize. You

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can do it at other times too, but I would
go ahead and do it now. Get it down, get
it in the ground. You can find with the fertilization
if you like to do that. But he makes PLUS
the concentrated combost in a bag from microlife. It's the
purple bag. That's the one you're looking for. And don't
forget to do that in addition to the fertilizations that
you're doing. It's just a way to take our heavy

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clay soils and little by little, the way nature does
it bring them further and further along and make them healthier,
make the roots happier, and when roots are happy, plants
are happy. That's kind of how that works. Not rocket science.
Why don't we say that? You know, if you're if
you are a quote rocket scientist, it's not rocket science
to you either, because you understand it. Gardening is not

(01:11:39):
rocket science unless you don't understand it. When you do,
it's simple. That's that's what we try to do here
is make it. Make it simple, make it easy because
it is and it should be fun. If you're not
having fun gardening, we need to talk. We need to talk,
and we need to help it become more fun. If
you've been struggle, there's no shame and failing with a plant.

(01:12:02):
You don't fail at gardening though, unless you give up.
If you give up, you failed. But if you try
something and a plant dies, that's okay. Best horticulturists in
the world kill a lot of plants. J. C. Ralston said,
to be a good cord of culturist, you got to
kill a lot of plants. And that's true.

Speaker 6 (01:12:19):
You do.

Speaker 3 (01:12:19):
Don't be afraid to. Let's have fun. Let's figure it out.
Let's kill less plants by figuring out what they want.
Think like a plant, Okay, what does a plant want?
Plant wants sunlight, plant wants, drainage, plant wants nutrients, a
plant wants, the right temperatures, all that those are all
part of what it takes to make a plant happy.

(01:12:42):
So let's do that and we'll try to help you
with that here on Garden Line. There's so many great
garden centers around the Greater Houston area. It just if
you are, if you're into horticultural tourism, and I hope
you are, you got to go check out the garden

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centers all over town, even the ones that aren't near you,
because there's so many good ones and they each have
their unique personality, their unique offerings, the unique feel. You know,
that garden center in Channa Gardens is one of those.
It's out there in Richmond Rosenberg area. In Chanet Gardens
is on the Katie Fullsher side of Richmond off FM

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three fifty nine FM three fifty nine, So if you're
in Richmond, you're heading toward Katie full Sure direction three
fifty nine. That is in Chenne Gardens up there. Now,
they have an unmatched selection when it comes to plants
and trees and shrubs and certainly knowledge there. Their helpful
team is about as enthusiastic as they come. You can
take photos and samples to them and get expert advice

(01:13:45):
on things. Right now, the first thing is going to
happen when you drive up to in Chane Gardens is
your jaw is going to drop because you look out
across this expanse of every you don't even know where
to begin. I mean, where do you begin?

Speaker 13 (01:13:58):
You know?

Speaker 3 (01:13:58):
Do you go to the blooming trees, the red bud?
Do you go check out all the new boogain villas
that they've gotten in. You know, it's hard. Bougainvillias can
make you not notice a pink flamingo, plastic pink flamingo
in the landscape. They're that gaudy, Yes they are, and
they've got a lot of them there Channy Gardens. How

(01:14:19):
about maybe you're into attracting butterflies and you would like
some milk weeds. Well, they've got swamp milk weed, they've
got the world milk weed, they've got the butterfly weed,
the standard kind we most people see around here and
on and even more. Whatever you're looking for, whatever kind
of garden you want to create, you're going to be

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able to do that in Channa Gardens, all right. And
while you're there, grab your fertilizers like microlife and nitros
sauce and nitrofoss Nelson plant food Medina, grab your soil
products from Nature's Way and heirloom soils. I mean, it's simple.
Just head up there. FM three point fifty nine Katie Fullster.
Side by the way. The website enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com.

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Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. You're listening to garden Line.
I'm your host skip director. If you'd like to give
me a call. Seven one three two one two k
t r H. Seven one three two one two k
t r H. I was looking online. I follow my
I follow my sponsors on their Facebook and on their Instagram,

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and I'm checking out their websites as well, just to
see what's going on. And the folks at BNBTURF Pros
had been putting in kind of doing a little bit
of a landscape revamp and some of the projects and
whatnot that they were working on, and uh, they were
doing some compost top dressing, bringing their equipment in. You know,
they are the compost top dresser, Core aer rating and
compost top dressing for down south and West in the

(01:15:47):
Houston area. So if you're in Sugarland or Missouri City,
all the way across to Pearland and then down all
those communities along Highway six, Sienna Arcola, Manville, Iowa Colony, Fresno,
that whole region down there, Trammels, Shadow Creek Ranch, that
whole area. That's what they serve. And they bring their

(01:16:08):
high quality equipment in. They bring their high quality compost
and they used First of all, here's one thing I
like about BnB turf Pros one a mini uh. They
use the products I talk about on garden Line and
that includes CNA Molts. That's where they get their high
quality leaf molk compost, just from Cnamlts. So that tells
you right there, you got good products. You've got a

(01:16:29):
company at BnB that wants to make a positive relationship
with their customers, a personal connection, so you're satisfied and
you look at their reviews and that's the kind of
work that they do. Here's the website BB and Just
BB Turfpros dot com. Bbturfpros dot com seven to one

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three two three four fifty five ninety eight seven one
three two three four five y five nine eight. You
need to give them a call. All you need to
get on the schedule and have them come out this
spring or early summer. You do in summer too, and
have them do a correoration and a compost top dressing
to get life and oxygen down in the root system.

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If you're so, especially when you're dealing with sow compaction,
that is the way you need to go.

Speaker 9 (01:17:19):
It just is.

Speaker 3 (01:17:22):
I was going through my garage yesterday and I had
a box back there, and I don't know how this
ended up, but I what's in this box? I picked
it up and it's my tree hugger sprinklers. I hadn't
put my peg board up so I couldn't hang them
up in the garage. Tree hugger is great. It comes
in a seven inch, eleven inch and fifteen inch. You
attach them to a hose. You put them around a

(01:17:42):
shrub or tree. I know it says tree hugger, it
could also be shrub hugger. You're putting a rosebush in,
put a little seven inch tree hugger around there, turn
it on barely watering. You soak that root ball. As
the plants get bigger and bigger, you turn it up
more and more to where I mean, you could have
a tree that's twenty feet across. You crank your tree
hugger up in the summer when it's one hundred degrees

(01:18:02):
and had them rain in three weeks. Turn that on
and rescue your tree or keep it growing fast. You're
going to find them at D and D and Tomball.
You're going to find them at Spring Creek feed Center,
League City feed down in League City, Southwest Fertilizer ace
hardware stores like Sinko, Ranch and Katie and K and
M and a task Asita in Fullshire, Arburgate, Nelson Water Gardens, RCW, Warrens, Kingwood,

(01:18:26):
Southern Kingwo Garden Center in Channa Gardens, both in Chaney
Gardens and in Channa Forest down there in the Richmond
Rosenberg area. It's easy to find one. The question is
that you're going to get one because you're going to
use it year round, every time you plan a plant
and every time any of your shrubs and trees needs
a boost of water to keep them going in the summer.
Time for me to take a break. When we come back,

(01:18:47):
we will head out to West U and talk to Charlie.

Speaker 6 (01:18:53):
Way.

Speaker 3 (01:18:54):
Welcome back. We are back on guardline with your questions.
You know, if you want success with any plan, I
talk about brown stuff for green stuff meaning foundation meaning
the soil. It's the same is true with plants. You
take jungle land from nitrofoss for example, they have their
outdoor flour and vegetable planting soil and they have their

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indoor water saving potting salt with water saving crystals in it.
Either one of those is going to do what you
want a soil to do. You want a soil, meaning
in this case of potting soil, you want it to
hold water in nutrients so that they're there. You don't
have the water every day, you don't have the fertilizer
of a week. It holds on to those. It does
a good job of that. You also, and this is

(01:19:38):
very important when you're taking care of plants and you
want to have good success with them. You want that
soil to drain well. And that's what jungle Land does.
It drains well. Now you're going to find nitrofoss products
like jungle Land at many different places. You go down
to Angleton to Lake Hardware, You go on to Clute
to Lake Hardware there, go to the RCW Nurseries, go

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to Langham Creek, CA. On five point twenty nine. Those
are all places you're going to find night frost products.
We're going to run off the phones now and go
to West U and talk to Charlie Hey Charlie, Welcome
to guardenline.

Speaker 9 (01:20:11):
Hi, Skip, thank you. I have some hibiscus that are
maybe five feet tall, goers from the top of the
pot to the top of a plant or a little less,
and I'm thinking we're about to cut them back some
in order to encourage more leaser and followers. How far

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can I cut them back? Is now LPA time?

Speaker 3 (01:20:38):
You can cut them back as much as you want.
Hibiscus doesn't want to grow really until it warms up,
and so you know, if if you cut them back,
you may not see as much of an immediate response
as you would when it warms up. But there's not
a certain time that you have to print hibiscus. We
just wouldn't want to print them when we still have
cold weather coming because they put outculent growth and then

(01:21:01):
here comes a freeze or something a frost, and so
we try to avoid that.

Speaker 17 (01:21:04):
But other than that, you can kind of do it
as you wish. Okay, Yeah, it's not a not a
tough one on that, just as you wish, and a.

Speaker 9 (01:21:15):
Saying I could do to encourage more more booms I
fertilize or the cutting effect that.

Speaker 3 (01:21:21):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, A good, A good complete fertilizer. It's
got some of everything in it, you know, a little
of all three numbers, and then even some micros would
be good. But sunshine, that's the biggest thing on hibiscus
is good warm temperatures, sunshine, adequate moisture, dependable moisture, don't
let it get droughty. And then a moderate amount of fertilizer.

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Quality hibiscous food. You know, I know that the folks
that Nelson make a quality hibiscus food as part of
their nutri Star line that you could use. Comes in jars,
so it makes it easy to fertilize. All right, okay, two,
all right, Yeah, Nelson Sebistia's food. Yeah, it comes in
a little jar. You bet you take care. That absolutely works.

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Let's see here. Let's go to Joyce and Cyprus. Hello Joyce,
Welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 18 (01:22:14):
Good morning. My question is I'm thinking about getting a
long care company. My yard is a weeds but they
just spray. They don't use on granular. Is that is effective?

Speaker 3 (01:22:27):
Okay? They spray fertilizer, you're saying, yeah.

Speaker 18 (01:22:33):
Fertilizer everything that it's all you know, on a liquid spray.

Speaker 3 (01:22:39):
Well, I mean we we fertilize plants with liquid dissolved
fertilizer other plants all the time. You're not going to
get the same length of benefit from it, you know.
You you go with something like Nitroposcis superturf that's a
silver bag. You're going to get four months of feeding
out of that and it's going to gradually feed over time.

(01:23:00):
It's a more cost effective and it's a more efficient
way to put out the fertilizer then to have to
go through spraying a liquid on the plants. So I
would go the granular route myself. Have them Well can
they do that? I mean will they spread it out
for you?

Speaker 18 (01:23:17):
No?

Speaker 9 (01:23:18):
No, they won't.

Speaker 18 (01:23:19):
They just do you know, like I say, the liquid
spray and I can't get out there and do it myself.

Speaker 3 (01:23:25):
So well, I mean if they're if you if you
can't do it and they won't do it, you know,
you can go with what they're doing, but just decide
if you like the results of it. I guess after
doing it for a season, it's not how I would
go about it. It doesn't mean you can't do it.
And companies do that all the time. Uh, they go

(01:23:46):
through and they liquid apply, But I I think that's
more for their convenience probably than than than yours.

Speaker 5 (01:23:56):
So I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:23:57):
I don't know what else to say about that.

Speaker 18 (01:23:59):
Yeah, Daniel from green Pro Business. So I don't know
who else to call. And I got this ad, and
I don't know if they talked a good game.

Speaker 3 (01:24:09):
Well, well Green Green Pro is still doing a compost
top dressing and corperation. So I don't know if you've
talked to them about fertilizing lately, but they still are around.

Speaker 18 (01:24:21):
So do you happen to have their number handy because
I have not been.

Speaker 3 (01:24:25):
Able to find I do, Yeah, I do, well, I'm
gonna have to I'm you're requiring me to stretch. You're
requiring me to stretch halfway across the table here it
is to excuse me, eight, no problem. The website is
greenprotextas dot com. The phone number is eight three two

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three five one zero zeroad three two eight three two
three five to one zero zeroad three two and just
ask you know, if they don't do it, it surprised me.
But if they don't do it, maybe they can suggest.

Speaker 14 (01:25:07):
Somebody for you.

Speaker 18 (01:25:08):
All right, thanks so much, all.

Speaker 3 (01:25:12):
Right, thank you appreciate your call. Joyce. Good luck with that,
Thank you, Ki. Yeah. I like that Nitropus superturf because
four months, four months, sixteen weeks, sixteen weeks of feeding
gradually over time. What does that do well? It spreads
it out. It spreads out the application so that you

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end up getting a nice even mowing pattern. You know,
you put a whole lot of nitrogen on when it's warm,
and that grass just takes off growing like a rocket
and you're just momomo trying to keep up with it.
That's why we switched to the slow releases in the
summertime because a little nitrogen pushes that grass to grow
and we're trying to avoid, you know, overdoing it. So

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green simple as that Nitropuss silver bag. It's a nine
four to ten fertilizer. You're gonna find it at Fishers
Hardwares both in Pasadena, the one in the Port, the
one in Mount Bellevue, and the one down in Baytown
too are all places that you're going to find nitrofost
products also done in Alvin Stentton shopping Center on North Taylor.
You're going to find night frost products there as well.

(01:26:19):
So we're talking about garden centers and fun places to go,
places where you go and it's just cool out in
Kingwood area, you've got Kingwood Garden Center and you have
worn Southern Gardens, and both of them are stunning. They
just right now. What do you want? If it flowers, now,

(01:26:39):
they've got it. Do you want a Hollywood hibiscus? Do
you want redbud trees? They've had a really good selection
of red buds in out there at the Warrens Garden Center.
And roses. There are colors of roses now that just
I've never seen the color before. You know, roses that
are colored like kind of an antique coffee color of

(01:27:00):
some shade of yellow or pink or whatever. It's just
you got to go see them. They're really cool. They
have some beautiful houseplants too. Warren's got in some white
princess philodendron, which is just a very beautiful little pellodendron,
easy to grow and does well. Of course, if you're
looking for vegetables, they've got those Warrens and Kingwood Garden
Center both and you're gonna find the fertilizers you need.

(01:27:22):
Both nurseries have got Microlife, nitrofoss turf Star airloom soils,
Nilson plant food probably you know all the products you
hear me talk about. I'll be talking about mosquito dunks
here before long as weather worms up. They've got those
as well. And if you need to refill your Microlife
or your Nelson fertilizer, listen to this. If you bought
Microlife by the jar, clear jars or Nelson plant Food

(01:27:45):
by the clear jars, both can be refilled there. You
just you know, it's like when you're buying peanuts in
the grocery store and you pull the little handle down
and fill the bag. That's how you fill up. Refill
those fertilizers, more economical and avoids all the extra plastic
in the enviire. By the way, Warrence is on North Park,
Kingwood is on Stonehallow. Both of them are open seven

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days a week. Well today, and I'm excited about this.
Heading out to sci Fair home show out at the
Berry Center in northwest Houston. Come on out and see me.
That is a great home show, by the way, super
easy parking, lots of stuff going on. One of my
favorite home shows to go to. I'm going to be
there answering your gardening questions. After I give a little

(01:28:28):
talk and we'll have a lot of one on one
time to eye.

Speaker 9 (01:28:31):
You know.

Speaker 3 (01:28:31):
Here on the show, I'm kind of moving fast going
from one call to another. But there we can just
sit down and kind of talk about these things. Do
you have samples to bring in? Now's the time. If
you got weeds, pull them up, put them in a bag,
bring them to me. We'll make them confess their name,
get them under a hot lamp, and I'll tell you
what to do about them. Also, if you need things identified,

(01:28:54):
or if you just have photos of areas, let's help
you have a more beautiful, bountiful place. It's fun and
we will be having fun. I'm gonna be having a
really good time anytime that I go out and meet
folks that listen to the show.

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We look forward to visiting with you about the kinds
of questions that you would have. I was looking at

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my garage yesterday at you know, what am I going
to do next? When it comes to fertilizing the lawn.
I got it all cleaned up ready to go. Next
thing I'm gonna do is put out some sweet green.
I've got an area that you know. I always try
at different fertilizers. When I talk about products on garden line,
I don't care what the product is. Fertilizer, pest control,

(01:35:29):
disease control, weed control, gadgets that you use, tools that
you use. There are things I've tried. They're things I've
tested or things that I've seen the research on, for example,
not just recommending something that I don't know if it
works or not. I use them. I do, and I've
used sweet Green before. It's an excellent product. Nitrouss has
really done their homework on this. It is a molasses

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based product. It reacts with water and basically just really
stimulates the populations of beneficial microbes down there in the soil.
When the microbes are happy, the plants are happy, and
when the plant's happy. You're happy you have the kind
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And you're gonna find it at places like the Ace
Hardware and Sinko Ranch or allsposees up in Woodlands. You're
gonna find it into places like D and D Feed
and Tomball and M and D Beamer out on in Sagemont,
and the M and D Clear Lake out in the
Clare Lake area on Bay Area Boulevard, some of the
many places you're going to find these nitrofus products. Let's

(01:36:33):
head out to the phones. We're going to go now
to Magnolia and talk to James. Hello James, and welcome
to garden Line. Catch you off guard there, James. Let's
see if we're gonna put you back on hold and
I'll come back to you. We'll check here in just
just a second. All right, Let's go to Kingwood and

(01:36:57):
we're going to talk to Sean. Hello, Sean, welcome to
gard garden Line.

Speaker 14 (01:37:01):
Good morning, Skip, how are you doing.

Speaker 3 (01:37:05):
I'm good, sir, Thank you.

Speaker 25 (01:37:07):
I had a hundred foot tiny tree that was struck
by lightning. Twice in the last five years, and then
Hurricane Barrel came roaring through and took about twenty five
percent of its branches off. Needless to say, the tree
died about two weeks ago, and I had it removed.
What do I need to do to the soil to replant.

Speaker 14 (01:37:27):
A new tree?

Speaker 3 (01:37:30):
And nothing. I think.

Speaker 25 (01:37:34):
Most of the sawdust was removed by the company because
I requested that they shoveled it away.

Speaker 3 (01:37:40):
Yeah, that's good, good to get that out of there.
I would move over just a tiny bit, you know,
from that exact spot put your new tree in in
order to do it. Ought to do fine. If you
feel like there is some sawdust still in the soil,
having a little bit of a mounded up soil is
helpful because it's going to settle. As that sawdust decomposes,
the soil level is going to get lower. So starting

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off a little higher will end up kind of where
the level you probably want it to be at ultimately.
So yeah, you can just go back in and do
your replanting.

Speaker 6 (01:38:14):
Okay.

Speaker 25 (01:38:15):
Do you recommend any type of amendment, like maybe like
a rich top soil just to help it start out?

Speaker 3 (01:38:25):
You know, I really don't, you know, that pine tree
is going to have to grow in the soil of
the site where it's located, and the fact that one
grew there before tells me it's soil that pine trees
are going to be happy and and so no, I
wouldn't add any composts to it. That's just a little
tiny local around a certain spot you're amending, and it

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doesn't really it's not a good long term solution, and
in fact, there's some ways where it can be a problem.
So I would just plant them in the soil they
have watered in. Well, continue to fertilize very lightly over time,
and get the best growth you can out of that plant.

Speaker 14 (01:39:02):
Okay, Well, I appreciate the information.

Speaker 6 (01:39:04):
Thank you, very thank you very much.

Speaker 3 (01:39:07):
Yes, sir, all right, thank you. I appreciate I appreciate
that call. Let's uh, let's see here. Oh, I wanted
to mention to you. Someone was asking me, who do
you recommend for compost aeration or excuse me, compost top
dressing and core aeration inside Houston inside the Beltway. Well,
that is year round Houston dot com. That's the name

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of the company. Year Round Houston dot Com eight three
to two eight eight four fifty three thirty five. Now
they do a quality job. They use quality products. They've
got the equipment that it takes to go in there
and do a quality core aeration where you pop the
plugs out of the ground, drop them on the surface,
and then follow that with equality compost, top dressing, screened,

(01:39:54):
no stinky stuff, just quality screen, quality compost that settles
down in the lawn and does its work. And again,
if you are inside the Beltway, this is who you
need to call a year round Houston dot com eight
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Go ahead and call them, get on the schedule. You
can do this, you know, anytime in the spring summer.

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I mean, there's not a day you have to get
this done. Get on the schedule and get that done
year round Houston dot com. Let's see here. We are
going to go now to Beth and Tumbaull. Hey Beth,
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 26 (01:40:31):
Hi Skip, thank you for taking my call. I wanted
to ask you about we have some property in Thrall, Texas,
which is in Zone nine, and we want to plant
some pine trees to kind of be on the border
of the property to create a natural border. So we
want something that you know, is kind of like Christmas

(01:40:54):
tree pine tree looking like, but we're having trouble of
deciding on what hind and then where should we get
them from.

Speaker 3 (01:41:04):
Yeah, you know out there, you're outside of pine country,
and so most of the pines that we see around
here are they're going to be like a lobb lolly pine.
There are some slash pines. I wouldn't plant a slash pine,

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just to make that clear. Lob lollies and stuff. You
go down to bass Drop, you got the lost pines,
which is you know what, I don't know, under miles
south of the year or something like that, maybe not
even that far, and so you could you could try
those the further west we go. If you're if you
went further and you're across thirty five, I'd say you
need to look at an Afghan pine. But out in

(01:41:49):
your area there are some Virginia pines that are planted
for Christmas trees. They can be done, but the the
lob lolly is probably the best one to try. In
your area. You do have some heavy clay soils, and
do you happen to know out theres are we looking
at a black clay.

Speaker 26 (01:42:08):
It's more of an orange clay.

Speaker 27 (01:42:11):
I mean, we have different spots.

Speaker 26 (01:42:13):
Than everything almost things like, but a good portion of
it is just yellow and orange, yellow and red and orange.

Speaker 5 (01:42:20):
Yes.

Speaker 3 (01:42:22):
Well, for a naturalizing kind of pine, that's the lob lolly.
And you get down to bast Up again the lost pines,
and you see those kinds of things down there that
are equally far west as you are. So I would
probably go with that. There are some other examples of
pines that could be used, but I think based on
what you're describing, are you wanting something tall or are

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you wanting something to say smaller, Well, more to.

Speaker 27 (01:42:51):
Be thick, So okay, to go tall would be just fine,
but more to be you know, like a to create
like a natural border.

Speaker 3 (01:43:03):
Yeah, okay, Well i'll tell you what's planted out there
is the Eastern red cedar, and they make an evergreen
Christmas tree looking tree for a very long time, until
they get so old and so large that then they
make a larger bit. But I might consider Eastern red
cedar in that area. It's just an option, but hopefully

(01:43:23):
that'll get you at least some ideas to get off
to a good start. I think the eastern red seedar
will be a little more durable in that area. But
I hope that helps. I've got a run. It's time
for me to have a hard break, Beth. But good
luck with that. Thank you, you bet you take care.
Folks will be right back already. Good morning, on a

(01:43:47):
good Saturday morning. You're listening to Garden Line, and we're
here to answer your gardening questions. If you live up
in the Willis area, you need to check out Growers
Outlet if you haven't been there already. It's the website
is the same what I just said. It's Growers Outlet
in Willis. Growers Outlet in Willis. They're on seventy five
south of Willis, just a few minutes away from Interstate

(01:44:08):
forty five. So they serve that whole region. You know, Conroe,
a Lake Conroe area, the woodlands certainly Willis, of course,
and even up in New Waverley. This is your hometown
garden center right there. They got plenty of vegetables and bedding,
plants and perennials and ferns and beautiful trees and shrubs
and fruit, pretty much what you would expect from a

(01:44:29):
garden center. Now, one unique thing about Growers Outlet in Willis, Is.
If you go to the website Growers Outlet in Willis
dot com, you will find the availability and the pricing
of the products that they carry there. Not many nursers
do that, So if you're kind of wondering, well, I
wonder if they still have any tomatoes and go go
they I think on Wednesday evenings they post those veggies online.

(01:44:50):
They're always keeping up with the stuff. Beautiful baskets, gorgeous baskets, unbelievable.
Last time I was over there, I was looking at
some of the Macha ferns that they had, and oh,
my gosh, they are gorgeous. These things are like tropical
take over the world. Gorgeous, beautiful, beautiful grows Outlet in
Willis dot com. I'm gonna go now to Ray and

(01:45:13):
we're gonna go to Porter, Texas. Hey, Ray, Welcome to
garden Line.

Speaker 12 (01:45:19):
Hey Skip, thanks for taking my call.

Speaker 3 (01:45:22):
Yes, sir, I have a.

Speaker 12 (01:45:26):
Dilemma. We recently moved into a new home and it's
a fifty five plus community, so they take care of
the front yard and all we have to do is
maintain the backyard.

Speaker 3 (01:45:42):
Well, all righty.

Speaker 12 (01:45:44):
When we moved in the problem was they put down
that nasty black moulch. And so my wife said, and
we listened to that you all the time, and she said,
first thing we have to do when we move in
is get rid of that black molts. Well, since we've

(01:46:05):
moved in, the community has moltched. They molted two times
a year, so they moltched with good molts this time.
So now we have good molts and black molts down below.
And so she wants to remove all the all the

(01:46:28):
molts and then the dirt really is more like clay.
So yeah, she said, we well we do that, remove
the molts and then put dirt, good dirt down and
plant the couple plants that we took out, and then
put good molts.

Speaker 3 (01:46:49):
And I'm thinking you could do that.

Speaker 14 (01:46:52):
I know we could do that.

Speaker 12 (01:46:54):
Well, my question is do we have to do that?
How much damage did the does the black moultch do after?
Because it was.

Speaker 3 (01:47:06):
All right, so you don't you don't have to do that.
Here's here's where's what you can do. And you can
pull them mulch all out. You can get some quality
bed mix and mix it into the soil. And your importer,
uh you know, heirloom soils is right there at Warrun's
Rock and Mulch on the on the Interstate. I mean
the sixty nine right there in Porter. Yeah, and just

(01:47:27):
get a good quality bed mix from them, like a
rose soil for example. Mix it into the soil you
have as best you can to improve that soil. Don't
just throw it right on top, but mix it a little,
a little if you can, in plant your plants and
then bring the same umulch out and drop it down.
It's going to rot in time. I would not choose

(01:47:47):
a dyed mulch. I don't care for dyed mulches. But
it's not like it's going to kill your plant. You
have to get it out of there or everything's going
to die. So you've already got it. It is organic matter.
It does block the light from getting to the soil.
Throw it down. Just always put good malt on top
of it. Always add fresh malt on top of the
old malts, and the old malt will ride away and

(01:48:08):
become soil again.

Speaker 12 (01:48:11):
Okay, Well, my question was really taking the most out.
It's not like there's still we only took out. Well,
it's a pretty big bed. We took out twelve she
doesn't like Mexican heather, and they look like they died.

(01:48:34):
So we took out twelve of them and and we're
going to replace them with something. But okay, but when
I took them out, you know, I said, well, the
most the molts didn't kill them.

Speaker 14 (01:48:50):
They were just.

Speaker 6 (01:48:52):
So that that.

Speaker 3 (01:48:55):
Yeah, So basically what I what I just had said,
is what I would recommend if you want to pull
the ulmulch out, improve the soil, put the put the
molts back down, and then in the future just go
with quality fresh mulches on top. And that that is
the most economical now and the simplest way to go.

(01:49:15):
If you if you feel like your soil needs improving,
all right, so.

Speaker 28 (01:49:20):
We do it.

Speaker 3 (01:49:20):
Good luck with that. Well, if you're going to amend
the soil, you have to get the mulch out of
the way so you can put a quality mix in
there to mix it into the bed to improve the soil.
If you're not going to do that to the soil,
then leave the malt you have, pull it aside, do
your planting, pull the mult back around the plants, and

(01:49:41):
just put non died mults down in the future. Okay,
I'm going to have to run. I've got some other
folks here online, but good luck with that, certainly, certainly
wish you well, all right. Listen. Barricade by nitrofoss is
the product that stops weeds from getting established. So whenever

(01:50:03):
we are in a weed sprouting season, which really is
twelve months out of the year, you can put down
barricade and stop that. The two big sprouting times for
weeds are in the late winter early spring for our
warm season weeds, that's when most of them sprout, So
get that down now, sap and in the fall. Typically
October is when we put down the barricade again for

(01:50:27):
cool season weeds. But you'll find that no product lasts forever.
So if you get sixty days, you know, or even
more into the season here, you can do it again.
If you're trying to stop weeds that are continued to sprout,
like crabgrass and like grasspurs and things, they'll be still
sprouting on through the season. Barricade from nitropos Where do

(01:50:48):
you get it? Well, you can get in a lot
of places. RCW nursery carries it, Lake hardware and Angleton
Inclute carries it. Plants and things up in Brenham carries
it lots of places to get quality Night of Us products.
We're going to go now to Stan in Cyprus. Hey, Stan,
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 6 (01:51:05):
How you doing?

Speaker 26 (01:51:06):
Hey?

Speaker 10 (01:51:07):
I have a live oak tree and it's getting some
roots that are kind of just growing on top of
the lawn. And I was reading somewhere on a Google
that or something that roots can be safe that are
doing growing like that can be safely cut out in that.
Is there somebody or do you agree with that? Or
is there somebody in town that would be able to

(01:51:29):
get rid of some of these roots that are growing
on top of the ground.

Speaker 3 (01:51:33):
Yeah, you know you can. You can cut some roots
now if you do A general guide rule if I'm
just very general, is take one root out a year,
because you don't want to take thirty percent of the
tree's roots out and that would be very damaging to
the tree. Plus you have a less stable tree when

(01:51:55):
you remove those bracing roots. Another option is to plant
a groundcover, a vining groundcover to just grow over that
area and cover the roots up. Typically where the roots are,
you're not getting good sunlight because of the trees anyway,
the live oak trees and so Putting groundcovers in around
that area is an option. Another option is to slowly

(01:52:17):
bring in soil maybe an inch mench and a half
two inches at a time. Next year, do it again
and again and raise the soil level up around those
roots so that it essentially they're not sticking up anymore.
You just don't want to add four inches of soil
all around the tree everywhere at one time. That's stressful
to the tree. Okay, but one just one root A

(01:52:40):
hear well in general as a rough guide, I'm not
there looking at the tree and seeing it. But yeah,
you can cut a root off, and generally you haven't
taken enough off to hurt that tree.

Speaker 4 (01:52:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:52:53):
Is there any a good tree guys in the area
that can do stuff like that?

Speaker 3 (01:52:59):
Yeah, we generally recommend Affordable Tree Right now, they're kind
of on hold at the time, but Affordable Tree is
the people we usually talk to or send people to
for tree care and stuff.

Speaker 9 (01:53:13):
OK.

Speaker 3 (01:53:14):
So you might try the website affordabletree dot com.

Speaker 10 (01:53:18):
All right, man, appreciate you. O.

Speaker 3 (01:53:19):
Thanks, all right, thank you, sir, appreciate that. Let's see here. Oh,
I wanted to mention the pest brothers I was visiting
with them just the other day talking about where are
we on past? What's going on now? What they're telling
me is we're starting to see swarms of termites. Those
are showing up, and you know, here in the Houston area,

(01:53:40):
we've got more than one kind of termite that can attack.
For those of you that are listening, you know, let's
say I ten south. Typically you may be dealing, you know,
with the foremost and termite, and then as we go
north above eye ten and these termites don't have an
agreement where they draw a line across the state. It's
just in general, subterranean termites are more common. These folks

(01:54:03):
at Pest Brothers, they understand pests, They know what to use.
They use a product for controlling termites that is put
down in a trench around your house foundation and termites
cannot get through it and it lasts. I think they
have a ten year guarantee. This is a state of
the art product now has been around since round two thousand,

(01:54:26):
year two thousand, and it works. It really works. And
you may have noticed termite swarms. They're starting to happen.
You'll see like in a windowsill or in a doorway
or something. All these little wings on the ground. Termites
fly it. This is weird. They fly up in the air,
they mate, they come back to the ground and drop
their wings, and then people panic because they see all

(01:54:47):
these wings around. That just means the swarms are going on.
It happens. But if you're not sure, call past brothers,
have them come look at it, and have them do
their termite control system. They will give you a quote
if you give them a call two eight one two
oh six forty six seventy two eight one two o
six four six seven zero. Go to the website the

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pest Bros b r o s dot com dpestbros dot com.
Don't mess around with termites. Let's see here. I am
going to go out here to Kingwood and talk to Julianne. Juliane,
I got about a minute. Maybe we can finish, or
maybe we need to hold you over a little bit,
but either way, how can we help?

Speaker 28 (01:55:28):
Yes, we were we were removing some brick papers underneath
an oak tree and we thought the roots for pick
were pushing up the pavers. But it's actually this mess
of roots systems, very skinny looking like spaghetti, and they
have little shoots coming off of them. Whenever we moved
the pavers, they just expanded and became just an absolute

(01:55:52):
mess and very very difficult to remove. Is there anything
that we can put down to prevent those from coming back?

Speaker 3 (01:55:58):
And is it?

Speaker 28 (01:56:00):
Are these offsheets from the out tree?

Speaker 5 (01:56:04):
Uh? Do you?

Speaker 3 (01:56:05):
Can you send me a picture of that? I can't? Yes,
why don't we do that. I'm gonna put you. I'm
gonna put you on hold. The producer will give it
to you, and then let's try that with a callbacks,
because I want to make sure I'm seeing what you're picturing.
I have to run to a break. I'll be right back, folks.
You mad, you may be right, may be gray? All right, folks,

(01:56:31):
welcome back to Guardline. Good heavy with us, Hey, RCW.
Nursery is loaded right now with booga and villas. They
are gorgeous and they have standards. A standard means basically,
imagine a boogom villa with a trunk on it, so
you just have this bear trunk and then up at
the top or all the leaves and the flowers and
stuff like a miniature tree, a very miniature tree. They've

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got those, and they look so good. They just nothing
is as gaudy as a boogain villia. I mean, well,
let's just put it this way. If you have boog
and villas in your yard, people won't notice all those
pink flamingos you're stuck gott in the in the yard
because they're gaudier than the pink flamingo. RCW has also

(01:57:13):
got red shrimp plants and three gallon pots. This is
a great perennial. It does a number of things. First
of all, a little morning sun and it'll put up
with quite a bit of shade through the afternoon. Hummingbirds
love it and they're gorgeous. I think they make excellent
cut flowers too. You don't hear that much about red shrimp,
but the blooms just are really unique. They look like

(01:57:34):
a shrimp sort of. And they also have blooming trees there,
of course they do. RCDW Nurseries dot Com. Corner of
Beltway eight and Tomball Parkway. Easy to get to and
when you get there, you're going to find what you want,
including the expertise to help you out. We're going to
go down down to Galveston now and talk to Bill. Hey, Bill,
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 5 (01:57:55):
Thank you.

Speaker 4 (01:57:57):
I have a area in the back of my yard
that gets sun about from three o'clock. Can you have
tonoon on until look from three to maybe six or seven.
I want to play it as zaleas in it. I
want to make sure that that's not that that kind
of shade versus sun pattern is okay. And then I
want to recommendation because I heard you talking a couple

(01:58:20):
of weeks ago about the zaleus that bloom more than
once a year. So I'm looking for what would work
here in Galveston and suggestions on the on the on
the variety that I should get.

Speaker 3 (01:58:32):
Okay, lots of good azaleas out there. First of all,
you've got many good options. There's some of the older types.
Judge Solomon's a real popular one. Now we have the encorees,
which bloom more than once during the season. I personally
am more fond of the not repeat blooming azaleas. The
ones that just bloom in the spring I think do

(01:58:52):
a better job of blooming overall. But we do have
the re blooming types called the encorees that'll do that.
UH Azalea is like a forest floor type soil that
means lots of decomposed organic matter. Whether you use compost
or pete moss or whatever you use to create this

(01:59:13):
wonderful florist floor environment. Sandy composty soil is ideal. Give
them a very bright shade. They want lots of lots
of light, but not necessarily direct sun baking down on them.

Speaker 5 (01:59:26):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:59:27):
And then use an acidic fertilizer as you fertilize them.
We have several good options out there.

Speaker 4 (01:59:35):
So with fertilizers are a particular combination of you know,
one two three.

Speaker 3 (01:59:42):
Uh. With azaleas, yeah, you can. You know a lot
of times I'll use a product that Microlife makes. It's
a it's an acidic fertilizer. It's in kind of a
pink bag Microlife. It's for blue blue blueberries, it is
for azaleas, it is for Guardena's all of the things

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that like kind of acidic. All the products, excuse me,
all the plants that like acid By the way, I
said pink. It's really a reddish bag and it's a
six two four fertilizer, so it's got the extra nitrogen
to give it a good boost and so moderately fertilizing
with that, you're not going to burn the plants. Microlife

(02:00:27):
acid a fire six to four in the red bag.
That's not a salt based fertilizer, so you don't have
to worry about burning the plants with it. And I
would just go with that. That's a good slow natural
feed where you're going to get good results. There are
other acidic fertilizers out there on the market. I just
think that's one that for especially for those azalias, it's
going to do really.

Speaker 4 (02:00:47):
Well for you. Okay, Now in azaleas, is there a
particular variety would suggest that if I don't get the
watch a bloom of the once.

Speaker 3 (02:00:58):
Yeah, well, there are many good varieties, and you know
I could said and name a few, but you may
go to this or that nursery and they may have
this one but not that one or whatever. So if
you find them for sale here at our standard dependable
garden centers that you hear me recommend, it's going to
be varieties that want to do here. I just mentioned
Judge Solomon was one of the older varieties that has

(02:01:21):
been popular for a very long time. But there are
many many types or some that stay more small, more compact,
or some that get larger. So go to a reputable
nursery and they're going to carry a variety of those
that will all do well for you.

Speaker 4 (02:01:38):
And they come with different colors.

Speaker 3 (02:01:39):
Right, Yes, there's a salmon color, there's a pink color,
there's a white color, there's a red color. Azelia's give
you a variety of color options. Okay, thanks, all right, yeah, Bill,
good luck with those you too, Thank you. They will
help you get going.

Speaker 6 (02:01:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:01:59):
Micro Life, it's the acidifier is six two four. It
comes in a bag and it comes in a jar.
It's another one of those. It's also sold in the
jar by the folks at Microlife. By the way, if
you want to learn more about Microlife, go to their website.
It's Microlife Fertilizer dot com, Microlife for Leisure dot com.
They have a products page where you can read about
every product that you hear me talk about and all

(02:02:21):
the ones I don't have time to get to that
are available from the folks at Microlife. We're gonna now
go to Kingwood and Julianne. I'm sorry I accidentally went
a different direction coming back from break there. But meanwhile,
did you send me did you send me a photo?
By any chance?

Speaker 27 (02:02:37):
I did I send you three?

Speaker 6 (02:02:39):
I hope they went through.

Speaker 3 (02:02:42):
Okay, I'm not seeing them, but let me do a
sink here and get my uh all right, I'm not
seeing them. I'm gonna tell you. Here's what I'm gona do.
I'ma put you on hold and have Jonathan get back
with you. Make sure we have the right email, and
if we do, I rather than just sit and wait

(02:03:03):
on them, I think I'll just come back to you.
But hang on a second, let's talk to Jonathan, make
sure we got the right email. I'm going to now
go to talk to Alfred. Hello, Alfred, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 6 (02:03:15):
Thanks good, just trying to see if you can help
me out. Over the years, we've gotten more and more
of these little gopher looking things. I used to just
see them on the cartoons when I was a grasshopper,
you know, a little kid. But yeah, they're really you know,
like the grass gets cut really nice, really fertile life.

(02:03:38):
But there they go. I guess I looked it up,
and they eat the roots. And now the roots of
the Saint Augustine is just sticking straight up and these things,
I mean I can see them, you know, pulsating under
the ground and by the time you try to dig
to try to get rid of it is already run off.

(02:04:01):
I guess they got a lot of tunnels in there,
but how would you get rid of them. I don't
want to relocate the little boogers.

Speaker 3 (02:04:07):
I just want them gone, Like, yeah, I guess I
just know, just so, just so I know for sure
what we're talking about. Are you seeing these giant mounds
of soil, kind of like sandy soil mounds and stuff
like bigger than a fire mound sticking up or are
you just seeing the tunnels.

Speaker 6 (02:04:28):
I'm seeing the tunnels, but they're like maybe like I
guess what the size of a grate sausage but unders
And one day I pulled up a paver because I
was going to try to use it for a different purpose,
and I saw it and it looks like a little
bald ram, completely pale, and he just went into his

(02:04:53):
burrow and walked off.

Speaker 5 (02:04:56):
Right.

Speaker 3 (02:04:56):
So those are There's two things. We have moles and
we have voles. One m one v It could be
either one of voles or just basically rats. They're a
rodent kind of thing. The way we control those is
either with a poison that's put down in the mound

(02:05:19):
or in the tunnel for them to find and feed on,
or with a trap and a trap. There's different ways
traps work. One of them has spikes that go down
in the ground. One of them has a little loop
that when the critter goes across it, it pulls it up.
It's like an upside down rat trap kind of thing.
It pulls up the loop and catches them. That way,

(02:05:41):
you got to find the tunnels. You go step on
the tunnels you see and then go back and check them.
And depending on which you have, moles and volves are different.
I can't go into all the detail here online, but
I mean on the air. But if you step on
the tunnel and you see that tunnel, within a day
it's pop back up. That means you got an active run.
And that's where you would put the traps, or that's

(02:06:01):
where you would put the pellets in there. If you
go online to Agra Life bookstore, the Agra Life Bookstore,
you can do a search for moles and a search
for voles and you'll get a free publication you can
download that tells you all about them, how to do

(02:06:22):
the trapping, how to identify them, all that kind of thing.
That's the fastest way that I can get you an
answer here. Okay, I'm sorry, Alfred, I'm out of time, yes, sir,
and don't hesitate to call back if yes, sir, you too,
and don't hesitate to call back if we can help
you further. All right, folks, we'll be right back. All right, folks,

(02:06:48):
we're back. We are back. We are going to go.
Let's see. Oh I wanted to mention to you if
you didn't hear me earlier. Nature's Way Resources is having
their spring gardening festival. It's going to be today. It's
there big shindig that they have up there. They got
Jay White speaking. Jay's the publisher of Texas Gardner magazine.
They got other other great speakers as well. Nature's Way

(02:07:09):
Resources is the place to go for quality soil products,
so the brown stuff that is the foundation for success
with the green stuff that's in Nature's Way. You can
go to the website Nature's Way Resources dot com. They
got a great new website. Looks good. Don't forget ever.
Friday is Fungal Friday, which means ten percent off bags

(02:07:30):
of fungal based compost and twenty percent off bulk of
fungal based composts. Nature's Way Resources dot Com nine three
six two seven three twelve hundred. We're going to go
now to talk to Ed in Cyprus. Hello, Ed, Welcome
to Gardenline.

Speaker 14 (02:07:47):
Good morning. I sent you a pure short video.

Speaker 3 (02:07:52):
I've got this. Yes, it had a bognvidia in it.

Speaker 6 (02:07:57):
When I went over to room, I saw the soil
mound it up.

Speaker 3 (02:08:03):
And it's just right. I mean, it's just I guess
it's a huge ant pile. Yeah, it's a big an.

Speaker 13 (02:08:12):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (02:08:12):
Really, well, any fireant bait, well, any fireant bait should work.
Those ants have got to be out hunting for food.
They can't survive. And what's in the top of that
little pot so or big pot so? Uh there? If
you put firant bait and it's fresh bait and you
put it all around, it should knock them out. If
you want something faster, you can use an individual mound treatment.

(02:08:33):
There's a number of products like that that you can
just you know, go to your local ACE hardware store
there in Cyprus. You got several of them, and I
grab you an individual mound treatment type product. They can
there's baits and then there's the things you just drench
right on the soil and the drench on the soil
will kill them fast right there in that mound. The baits,
I would still use the bait over your whole property

(02:08:55):
because there's other fire ant mounds you don't even see
that are out there developing. So you want I would
do both.

Speaker 12 (02:09:02):
Well, then, well, I don't even know if that Boga
vida is still alive, but it won't.

Speaker 3 (02:09:08):
It won't hurt the booga vilia. No, the products won't
hurt your either one of them. All right, good luck
with it, Okay, I'll do that. Thank you, Yeah, thank
thanks for the colin, thanks for sending those photos. That's
very Helpfuljorges Hidden Gardens is down in Alvin, Texas. Actually
it's if you're in Alvin and you're going kind of
south west down six towards Santa Fe. It's about halfway

(02:09:32):
to Santa Fe off to the right. But Horae always
has a good selection of all kinds of cool plants.
There are right now by the way today down there
from ten to noon, right when the show's over to
noon at Horages Hiden Gardens on Elizabeth Street. He and
Deston Texas Garden Guy are gonna be down there doing
the Spring Garden meet up and I guarantee you this.

(02:09:53):
They're gonna have a good time, that is for sure.
So going out there and check them out. Why are
you there? You're going to find all the quality problem.
Actually has gorgeous trees and shrubs and perennials and vegetables
and roses. Oh, excellent selection of fruit trees and roses.
You know Horace Hidden Gardens. You need to go check
him out. Check him out. They also had that three

(02:10:15):
sixty tree stabilizer I talk about all the time. Again,
Horace Hidden Gardens on Elizabeth Street, just south of Alvin
off Highway six serves that whole area down there. Let's
head now to Julie Ann in Kingwood. Hey, Julianne, welcome
to garden Line.

Speaker 18 (02:10:33):
Hello, did you get the pictures? I just I'll try
to email them.

Speaker 3 (02:10:36):
I did, I did, Thank you. They came through. They
came through this time. So let's let's go on your Yeah.
So you're seeing a massive roots underneath the pavers right.

Speaker 28 (02:10:48):
Yes, yes, And there's an oak tree that's just right there,
and we just don't know if it's coming from the
oak tree or if it's a former round cover that
the former owners.

Speaker 6 (02:10:59):
Had or what.

Speaker 3 (02:11:01):
As well, it could be different things. I see different
kinds of growth in there, and a real proliferation of
growth too. It's crazy how those things are proliferating. You
could do a couple of things. You could just clear
them all out, you know, get to get a grubbing
hoe or something to just sort of chop and clear
out as much of that as you can. Put your

(02:11:22):
pavers back down. The problem is those pavers are a
nice moist spot for the roots to proliferate in. There's
good oxygen under the pavers, and so the roots are
wanting to grow there. There's no eradicating them. So you
can get rid of them. They're going to grow back.
That's That's just how that works. As far as them

(02:11:42):
being a concern, other than the fact that they're lifting
up pavers a little bit there for you there, I'm
not concerned about them. So I don't see a threat
posed by those roots.

Speaker 18 (02:11:55):
What about the.

Speaker 28 (02:11:58):
The cover that that black cover that you can put
to prevent weeds, that black cloth?

Speaker 18 (02:12:05):
Would that help if I if I put.

Speaker 3 (02:12:07):
That down, now, they're going to grow under it, just
like they grew under the pavers. Yeah, they are, and
so that that is it. I just I'm really surprised
at the proliferation of how they're growing under there. They
that is crazy. Is there like an Asian jasmine? Okay?
Is there like an Asian jasmine groundcover or something going

(02:12:30):
on under there?

Speaker 28 (02:12:32):
Well, the former owner had all kinds of plants and
everything just kind of scattered throughout the yard, and that's
what we were thinking, that it may have been a
groundcover that she had around the oak tree at one time,
and that it's just having a reboot.

Speaker 3 (02:12:49):
Okay, that's possible. But I tell you what, all that
proliferation of roots is coming from bigger roots, which are
coming from bigger roots. So you find a good big roote,
get your grubbing or or something, swing down on it
and chop it off. You ought to be able to
pull a lot of that up.

Speaker 28 (02:13:04):
You shouldn't have to leave a lot of probably about
five hours worth the work it was.

Speaker 3 (02:13:11):
Oh boy, it's awful, awful. So okay, I'm sorry, we'll.

Speaker 18 (02:13:18):
Just keep cutting it back.

Speaker 29 (02:13:19):
Then.

Speaker 28 (02:13:20):
We just didn't want to.

Speaker 27 (02:13:20):
Hurt the oak tree in anyway.

Speaker 3 (02:13:24):
It won't It won't hurt it to do this, So
good luck with that. Sorry to be the bear of
bad news. Have fun just think of it this way.
Think how much you would spend on a gym to
go get that kind of a workout. So, Julia, take care, Boba,
Sorry about that, Yeah, okay. Jungle Land from the folks

(02:13:45):
at Nitropiz makes. Actually there's two different versions. An outdoor
version called jungle Land flour and vegetable planning soil, an
indoor version called jungle Land Water saving plotting potting soil.
It's got the crystals to swell up with water, so
when the soil gets a little dry, those crystals hang
onto water a little bit longer, and you get a
little bit of a forgiveness, if you will, when you
don't remember to re water the soil. Now, quality products

(02:14:10):
like jungle Land drain well. They hold water and nutrients well,
and you're going to find them in a number of places.
Ace Hardware City on Memorial Drive. If you go to,
for example, the M and D rosenberg A Court Hardware
out in Stafford, m and d up Up in Cyprus
and Lueta, those are all places where you're going to
find nitroposs products here in the Greater Houston area. Ace

(02:14:35):
Hardware is always a good place to go.

Speaker 12 (02:14:38):
You know.

Speaker 3 (02:14:38):
Ace carries tons at Nitropos products in general. But ACE
is a place for everything. I mean it really is.
You want to have beautiful outdoor living, ACE Hardware is
the place you need to go. You're going to find
ACE Hardware Texas dot Com to be the website that
points you at every place that you might want to go.
And there's a lot of great ACE Hardware stores. There's

(02:14:59):
Child Building Supply which is out in Orange. There's Memorial Hardware,
Memorial Drive, There's Port Lavaka, Ace on calhouna Plaza. I
can just keep going Lake Conroe, Ace Hardware, League City,
Ace Hardware, All Star Ace Hardware, your fertilizers, your pest control,
week Control, everything right there at ACE Hardware. Easy to go.
Oh you got to do write this down Ace Hardware

(02:15:20):
Texas dot Com. Also, uh, I hope you don't hope
you had made plans for after lunch today from twelfth
to two, I'm gonna be at the Safer Home and
Garden Show at the Berry Center, so Northwest Houston. Real
easy to get to. It's a great home and garden show.
You'll find a lot of good stuff. I'll be there
giving a talk. I'm gonna answer your gardening questions. Have

(02:15:42):
some books and products on hand. Come on out. We're
gonna have a good time. Hope you can make it.

Speaker 1 (02:15:51):
Welcome to kz RH Garden Line with Scamp Richard.

Speaker 12 (02:15:55):
It's just watch him as.

Speaker 24 (02:16:11):
The sun.

Speaker 3 (02:16:24):
All right, folks, we're doing our last hour of garden
Line starting right now. After that, I will jump in
a car and head to the Sophier Home and Garden
Show at the Berry Center and we'll be answering gardening questions,
having a good time with you. If you can make it,
hope you can. Today. Nelson Water Gardens is the destination

(02:16:50):
garden center out west if you if you're thinking about
the west side of Houston, you're heading out that direction
out toward Katie Nelson Water Gardens and Nursery is the
place to go. And of course they're known for the
water gardens. They've been a national leader in that. Created
things like the disappearing fountain coming out of the big
containers of beautiful glazed pottery containers. They know how to

(02:17:11):
do that. I was just looking at some of the
out there a while back, took some video pictures of
the fish, the koi, the shabunka, and of course now
all the water plants that are available for water gardens
that are so beautiful. Of course, everybody knows water lilies,
but there's plenty of other good options. When you're at Nelson, though,
you are going to find high quality pottery that you

(02:17:34):
didn't think about that Nelson Water Gardens and Katie high
quality direct imported hand crafted pot from around the world
lines that you're only going to find there, very exclusive lines.
They you know, when you put a pot out in
the landscape, whether it's on a patio or along a
garden path or wherever it transforms the area, and it's

(02:17:55):
the fastest, easiest way to instantly have beauty and color
front yard, backyard, wherever it is. It's it's a great
way to go. We need more containers, and boy can
they get you set up with that. Of course, when
you're there, you're gonna find out the water garden supplies,
whether whether you're a do it yourself or hiring them
to come do it for you, which they can do.

(02:18:17):
But you're also going to find a garden center, a
nursery where you buy your fertilizers, where you buy your
plants like vegetables and herbs and flowers and shrubs and
trees and fruit plants and on and on down the line.
All you do is head out to Katie on Ien
turn north on Katie Fort Ben Road and it's a
little up the road there on the right hand side,

(02:18:37):
Nelsonwatergardens dot com. It's always where it. Take someone with you,
Take someone with you, listen to the therapeutic sound of
the water, and enjoy shopping because it is a destination
garden center. We're going to head now to Jersey Village
and talk to w C. Hey, w C. Welcome to
garden Line.

Speaker 7 (02:18:58):
Good morning, So I thank you some photos. Did you
get them?

Speaker 3 (02:19:05):
Is this the crooked tree photo?

Speaker 7 (02:19:08):
Yes, crooked tree right, but also at the bot at
the base of the tree, it's got that big knot
on the root.

Speaker 3 (02:19:16):
Yeah. Yeah, you can plant it. Go ahead and plant it.
When you put it out of the pot, lay it over,
slide it out of the pot, and you're gonna find
circling roots. Take your printers and cut those roots that
are circling. I know it sounds dramatic, but it's you
got to do that otherwise you will have problems down
the line. Plant it in the ground after you cut

(02:19:38):
the roots, and in time everything's going to get larger,
the roots, the trunks and everything, and it'll it'll be
just like you. It doesn't even what you see now
will not be a long term problem in that in
the picture you see it will straighten up over time.
Then well yeah, it doesn't technically straight and it just
gets bigger. So what's like a little one inch zigzag

(02:20:01):
or two ends zigzag kind of thing. When that tree
is the size of the steering wool on your car,
it's not even you don't even know it's there. It'll
it'll be fine, right, But the.

Speaker 7 (02:20:13):
Tree itself is growing kind of with a couple of
curves on it for further up.

Speaker 3 (02:20:20):
Yeah, well, I mean you can you can leave it
as a yeah, well, I won't straighten. But what's noticeable
now is the trunk gets bigger, will not be as noticeable.
But if you don't like that, put a steak in
the ground and pull it straight. You can even pull
the middle of the trunk one way and the rest

(02:20:40):
of the trunk another way and make it straight. But
I'm telling you, as it gets older, you're not going
to so much notice it. I would get a tree stabilizer.
The three sixty tree stabilizer that's the product to talk
about all the time. You attach it to the tree,
you attach it to All you need is one steak
for this tree, and it will hold it in place
and you will get an ice straight trunk, upright trunk

(02:21:03):
out of it as a result.

Speaker 7 (02:21:04):
All right, sounds good, Thanks sir, having good day?

Speaker 3 (02:21:09):
Yeah, you bet, good luck. Thanks for the call. Appreciate
that very much. We are in the season now where
we're looking at longer term fertilizers coming in to replace
the fast, short term fertilizers that we typically do for
spring green up. Nelson's has Superturf. That's their silver bag.

(02:21:29):
Excuse me, Nelson's. My brain is shifting here. That's super Turf.
That's their silver bag. This is what happens when I
try to do three things at once. All right, anyway,
you've heard me talk about Nitroviz Superturf for a long time.
It is a nineteen four to ten fertilizer. This silver
bag the only silver bag I know out there on

(02:21:50):
the market. It is slow release, so for four months
it's going to be feeding your long gradually. So you
mow at a normal pace like you're trying to mowmo
mo to keep up with over fertilizing with nitrogen. It
releases it slowly. That's the beauty of nitrofoss superturf. All right,
And where are you going to find it? You're going

(02:22:11):
to find it at M and D and Clear Lake
out there on Bay Area Boulevard. You're going to find
it at the M and D Beamer On Beamer In
in the Sagemont area. You're going to find it at
D and D Feed up in Tomball and all the
different Fissures Hardware's, you know, the one in Pasadena, Laporte, Mott, Bellevue, Baytown.
Those are all places where you're going to get nitrofoss

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products like the silver bag Superturf nineteen fourteen from Nitrofos.
We're going to go now to League City and talk
to Randy. Hey, Randy, welcome to Guardline.

Speaker 13 (02:22:42):
Hey, Skip, I'm going to be planning some crooked neck
squash in the next couple of days. And I always
have two problems with those squash. Maybe you can help
me out. One about a week or two after I
put them in the ground, I get this kind of
white powdery substance on the leaves and eventually the leaf

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will die. And when I don't get the white powdery substance,
little insects will come and eat them. And I was
trying to find out should I use n neem oil
or spinosa or some other type of pesticide to prevent
the insects from eating it? And what can I do
about the powdery substance?

Speaker 3 (02:23:27):
Okay, So the powdery substance is called mildew, and it
is It attacks cute curbits. That's things like cucumbers and
squash and those types of plants. There are products that
are synthetic, and there are products that are organic that
can be used to prevent it. You don't want to
wait until all the leaves have that on them because

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there's nothing much less left to save. But there organic
products you've got to be used on a very regular
basis every few days to stave off the powdery milk.
Do nim oil is one that can walk from an
organic standpoint, and then products like belaton and other synthetics
fungicides can also fight powdery mildew. You just find one

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that's labeled for use on the squash. As far as
the insects, are we talking about things eating the leaves, Yes,
so squash does generally. I've not run across a leaf
eating insect that had to be controlled on squash. Now
you may have a situation where they do, but you

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would have to lose over half of the leaf area
before it would appreciably affect your production. So I'm thinking
that's not a concern. If you can catch the pests
at it, it's either going to be a caterpillar, a beetle,
a grasshopper. Those are all the kinds of that can eat. Okay, Well,

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spray some btea on it if you're concerned, and do
it about twice a week for about two or three weeks,
and that ought to shut it down.

Speaker 14 (02:25:04):
Just fine, Okay, Okay, great, I appreciate it.

Speaker 13 (02:25:09):
You bet.

Speaker 3 (02:25:09):
Good luck with that. Appreciate very much your call, folks.
I got to take a little break here. When we
come back, Larry and Lily you'll be our first two up.
All right, folks, welcome back to the garden Line. Glad
to have you with us today. Listen, if you are
up in the Grand Parkway Highway to forty nine area,

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we're talking about north and east a Tomball especially that
whole region up there. Spring Creek feed is your hometown
feed store. When you drive up, I mean, it's this
beautiful storefront. You walk in, it's a gorgeous store. In fact,
first time I walked in, I was going, okay, wait
is this a feed store? Because there was so much
cool stuff and they're to look at. But all you
have to do is turn right and there you're in

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the garden section, and every kind of product that you
hear me talk about it's going to be in there.
We're talking about Nelson Turf Star line, We're talking about
Mike Life's line, We're talking about Nitrophoss's line. Anything to
control weeds, diseases, funguses, you name it, they've got you covered. Now.
One of the best things about walking in is the
way they treat you. Friendly, courteous staff. They are about

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how do we help solve your situation with the products
and the kind of service that you need. So maybe
you are a senior citizen or military, or a FFA
or four h youth raising animals for stock show. They
have discounts for those groups. They can special order because
they're going to treat you right. They can do a
delivery service if needed. They also do that Spring Creek

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Feed in Magnolia on FM twenty nine seventy eight. Magnolia
FM twenty nine seventy eight. Everything you're looking for to
have a beautiful landscape, a bountiful garden, you're going to
find there at Spring Creek feed. It's as simple as that.
We're going to run now out to the Champions Area
and talk to Larry. Hello, Larry, Welcome to guarden Line.

Speaker 7 (02:27:00):
Good morning.

Speaker 14 (02:27:00):
I'm calling to see if there is a sprinkler repair
company whom you recommend. I'm in the Champions area.

Speaker 3 (02:27:10):
I would say I would probably go to Pierscapes. Peerscapes
is they're actually are preferred landscaper and they do everything
from design and installed and you name it. But they
do landscape. They do irrigation as well, quality sprinker systems.
Whether you need it designed or disrepaired or whatever. Give
them a call. Do you have a Do you need

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a number for them or a website?

Speaker 13 (02:27:32):
Oh?

Speaker 14 (02:27:32):
Yes, I'll take a number.

Speaker 3 (02:27:34):
Uh yeah, sure, two eight one three seven oh fifty
sixty two eight one three seven o five zero six zero.
And the website is Piercescapes dot com. But I gotta
warn you if you go to the website, you're going
to start seeing all this stuff you need to do
to your lawn, like are your landscape like outdoor lighting

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and a brand new barbecue pit hardscape area by so
you've been warned.

Speaker 7 (02:28:02):
All right, Thank you very much.

Speaker 3 (02:28:05):
Thanks a lot. I appreciate that, Larry take care plants
for all seasons. Is your hometown garden center. Right there
where Lueta comes into Tomball Parkway Highway two forty nine,
the road to Tomball from Houston. If you're going north,
you exit Luetta, cross over it, and it's right there
on the right hand side, and it's been there, on
the right hand side since two forty nine, was a

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goat path basically if you look some of the original
pictures from back in nineteen seventy three, boy, that place
has changed plants for all season, hasn't. It's always the
place where green thumb gardeners go and where brown thumb
gardeners go to get the green the brown thumb turned green,
if you will, And that's because they carry the plants
that grow here. They know that they're gardeners. They've been

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gardened here for decades. They know what to plant, they
know how to plant, they know the problems you have
you can take them a sample, you can take them
a picture. The main thing is just go and look
at all the plants that they've gotten in. From herbs
to vegetables, to flowers, to shrubs, to roses, to fruit trees,
to you name it. They carry it at Plants for

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All Seasons. That's the website too, by the way, Plants
for All Seasons dot Com the phone number two eight
one three seven six sixteen forty six two eight one
three seven six sixteen forty six. You can take them
samples and you can take them pictures too. If you
want help, they'll take time to help you, whether you're
putting together a beautiful outdoor container, you know, helping you

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pick the plants and know how to go about building it,
to whatever kind of help you need to have success.
At Plants for All Seasons. We're gonna head now up
to Humble and talk to Lily. Hello Lily, welcome to
garden Line.

Speaker 30 (02:29:46):
Good morning, Thank you for taking my call. I would
like to buy a tulip tree and are something that
has a lot of flowers and it's beautiful. I saw
two on a street and they were purple and they
were hanging upside down. I mean, it's just beautiful. But
I've looked around locally and I don't know where to go.

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And if it's a good idea kind of tree, it's.

Speaker 3 (02:30:14):
A wonderful tree. It's one of the first things to
bloom in the spring, and as you saw when you
drove down the street, they bloom on naked branches, no leaves,
just here come the blooms and it's just beautiful and
then the leaves come on to follow them. So yeah,
it's a great plant. Tulip tree is one of the
decidious magnolias. And I would go over to Warren Southern

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Gardens on North Park, driving Kingwood. I think that that
is probably the closest easiest place to find that, and
they give them a call first if you you know,
just want to be real sure they have them in
stock because they're very popular item, and so just make
sure they have me in stock. But war In Southern
Gardens is where I think you're going to find them.

Speaker 30 (02:30:58):
Okay, Now they say, what I read online was that
people confuse it for some kind of magnolia. Can you
confuse that tree?

Speaker 29 (02:31:08):
No?

Speaker 3 (02:31:08):
Well, okay, there's there's the magnolias that we're familiar with
here called southern magnolia. It's a big giant evergreen tree
that has white blooms in the summer. Tulip magni one
of the deciduous. The deciduous magnolias would be like saucer magnolias,
star magnolia, tulip magnolia, the ones you described the purple

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wine flowers look like little chalices of bloom with creamy
white to wine color. That's tulip magnolia. And there is
no confusion on that, and any good garden center can
tell you the difference between them. So as you're looking
at them, you may get there at a time when
you know the blooms have fallen off. And so did
you talk to them a place like Warns or Kingwood

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Garden Center? The one they're not gonna steer you wrong?

Speaker 30 (02:31:54):
Can you tell me a little bit about it doesn't
need a lot of sun? Where would I need to
put it in my yard?

Speaker 12 (02:31:59):
Sade?

Speaker 3 (02:32:00):
You know, if it had some afternoon shade, that would
be fine. It does need sun, though it takes sun
to make blooms, and so some morning sun would be ideal.
If a little afternoon shade makes it a little easier
to maintain the tree, give it a good forest floor environment,
meaning put in a bed with some good organic matter mixed,

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a good bed mix like a rose soil even in
a bed, and then most the soil well to kind
of keep the roots cool and keep them a little
moisture when we get into our one hundred degree for
weeks on end in the summer. Those are the tips. Yep,
all right, okay, thanks so much to have a wonderful dub. Well,
you bet, you bet, Thank you very much. I appreciate

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appreciate your call. Nelson plant Food has so many different products,
you know, I've been talking about their nutri star line today,
the vegetable garden and Azelia plant food, the all acid
loving plant food that they have. They've got a product
called Brusus Brook that is a very unique. It's a
fast greenup. It releases nutrients immediately, but it also has

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forms of nitrogen that release slowly over time, so it's
not like you get the whole nine yards at once.
You get a good quick greenup, a good warm, quick
warm season quick greenup, which we are right now in
that time, and go ahead and put it down and
watered in really good, and it's going to give you
feeding for a good while. You're going to get a
good benefit from it. It's easy to use, it's easy

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to find. Its available all over the place, like many
Nelson products in that turf Star line, but turf Star
Bruce's Brew. They also have a product ll Weedinator that
you wet the weeds you apply the product. It's a
fertilizer that has a weak control in it. You have
to weet the weeds before you use it because it
sticks to the weeds. The granules stick to the weed leaves.

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Waited air or two watered in nine. You get the
fertilizer down in the ground after it has had time
to soak into those leaves, and that works well too.
All good products from the folks at Nelson. We're going
to go now out to Magnolia and talk to Cheryl. Hey, Cheryl,
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 11 (02:34:11):
Hi, thank you. I was wanting to plant some azaleas
this week and I was told that I could put
rose soil in and uh.

Speaker 3 (02:34:23):
Yeah, that's okay.

Speaker 11 (02:34:25):
But I'm wondering if you do that, incorporate that, do
you also incorporate azalea feed a fertilizer I mean, and
then my second question is okay, you can, but.

Speaker 6 (02:34:39):
You don't have to.

Speaker 3 (02:34:40):
Yeah, well, well no, I would. I would put the
soil in plant the plants and then begin to fertilize
gradually over time. You know, no nutrient was going to
hang around there forever, so there's no Those plants don't
have roots all through the bed that you're making with
the rose soil, for example, they don't have roots in it,
so having fertil are out there, there's no roots out

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there to get it yet. So gradually increase the area
that you're fertilizing and you just have more efficient use. Now,
if you can find a soil for acid loving plants,
and being a magnolia, you're just down fourteen eighty eight
from the folks that at Nature's Way, and they have
blends that are for acid loving plants like azaleas and

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blueberries and communes and gardenias and stuff. So if you
have the choice, there's nothing wrong with with rose soil
for azalias. It's just you can go with something that's
a little more designed for acid loving plants. And I
would just call them over at Nature's Way and have
them tell you what they have and you can go
get it. Or you can bring it to you or
however you want to go about it.

Speaker 11 (02:35:42):
Okay, And my second question is I do have some old,
like ten years old azalea food in a bag? Is
it expire? Does it expire after a while?

Speaker 3 (02:35:52):
Go ahead and just use it. Go ahead and use it.
The only problem that happens sometimes with salt based fertilizers
is they get a little more and they sort of
turn into concrete. And if you can break those up,
you can still use them. It's nutrients. I mean, we'd
rather not have fertilizer that old. But just go ahead
and use it, use it according to the label and
you'll be all right.

Speaker 11 (02:36:13):
Thank you so much. I appreciate the answers.

Speaker 3 (02:36:17):
Yeah, yeah, no kidding. Send me a picture of Yoursalia
is when they finally start blooming later. Appreciate the cal
surel thanks a lot, all right, take care. Southwest Fertilizer
is the place where you go for anything you need.
It is I always say, if if they don't have it,
you don't need it, because they have everything. They have everything.
They're on the corner of byssin Ut and Runwick in

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Southwest Houston. Friendly service, quality products, great selection, I should say,
ultimate selection. You will not find a place that has
a better selection of all products, including the largest organic
selection in this whole region is right there at Southwest
Fertilizer corner of byssin Ut and Runwick. No matter what

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you need, from fertilizers to pest control, to weed control,
to disease control, it's the place to go. I'm going
to take a break here. When we come back, we'll
talk to Paton Waller and Carol in spring.

Speaker 18 (02:37:12):
Red.

Speaker 3 (02:37:14):
I haven't heard that one in a while. A gardening revolution,
how about that? That's what we need right now. More
on that later. Let's head out to sugar Land and
we're going to talk to Susan. Hey, Susan, Welcome to
garden Line.

Speaker 26 (02:37:30):
Ice caam quick question. What is the setting I use
on my Scott spreader for my sweet green?

Speaker 3 (02:37:39):
Oh boy? Okay, so here here's the deal on. There's
so many kinds of spreaders there. Of course, there's different
sizes of fertilizer granules and stuff. Other than what it
says on the bag or what it says on the spreader.
Here's my rule of thumb. Okay, is this a walk
behind spreader with on wheels? Are you talking about right

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y a walk behind. Yeah, okay, look at the number
of notches on your spreader and find the middle notch
number and do one or two above that. So, for example,
if there're ten notches, then you would do probably number six.
If there are twenty notches, I would do eleven or twelve,

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So one or two above middle is going to be
the closest, best guess. Now, there's nothing wrong with underfertilizing first,
because if you go north south with half of your
product and go east west with the other half, you
get a much bigger application. And should you find that
your setting is a little too low or too high,
you can just adjust it then that way, so can

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on the cross hatch application. That way, if you mess
up a little bit, you don't end up with the
lawn full of streaks.

Speaker 13 (02:38:54):
All right?

Speaker 26 (02:38:54):
Is it okay to just apply it and wait on
the rain or should I apply it.

Speaker 3 (02:38:59):
And water it in? It's okay to wait on the
rain if you want. There's not a problem, you know
what I mean. If it doesn't rain for three weeks,
well go ahead and water it in. But yeah, sweet
green from nitrofoss at eleven percent nitrogen. It's an excellent product.
It really works in more than one way, not just
the nutrients but stimulating mycrobial activity.

Speaker 18 (02:39:22):
All right, very good, all right, thanks very heah, all right,
thank you, you.

Speaker 3 (02:39:26):
Bet appreciating it all very much. Good luck, good luck
with that. And if you're hearing about sweet green, going,
where do I get that? Well, I'll tell you where
you get that. You can get that at Plantation Ace Hardware.
It's out there in the Richmond Rosenberg area. You can
get it at M and D up in Cyprus and Lueta.
You can get it at ACE at Sinco Ranch or

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auspas Ace up in the woodlands, either one all of
those and more. Actually, let's see here. I'm gonna now
go to Conroe and talk to Bess. Hello, Bess, welcome
to garden Line.

Speaker 5 (02:40:00):
Hello.

Speaker 29 (02:40:01):
I have a weed in my yard that has really
become the major. It's taken over the san and Augustine.
It's got a heart shape leaf and purple little flowers
which are really pretty right now. But like I said,
it's taken over my yard.

Speaker 28 (02:40:16):
What do I do.

Speaker 29 (02:40:17):
I've tried barricade and didn't phase it.

Speaker 3 (02:40:23):
We threw me on the leaf and the flower description
those two don't go together in my head the best. Well,
it's going to be a broad leaf weed, and so
I would use a post emergent weed control product on it. Okay,
post emergent, and there are a lot of products out
there that work in that you can mix them up

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and SPRAYM and spot SPRAYM with your sprayer and go
about it that route. But go ahead and get them
on now before the weather heats up. And if you
go online to gardening with skip dot com, I have
a publication called herb Side Products to use on my
weed wiper. Well, I need to change the name of
that because it's not just for the weed wiper, it's

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for whatever you want to use. But if you go
there and you go down to broad leave weeds, it's
going to give you one, two, three, four different options
on public on products that you can mix out and
spray on those weeds. Okay, you know what, now, I
think I know which one you're I think.

Speaker 29 (02:41:23):
Yeah, which one would you say it is?

Speaker 3 (02:41:28):
Well, I'm wondering if you said purple, I'm wondering about
wood sorrel or oxalis. It may be one of those.
You know what we can do, Here's what I'm gonna do.
I'm gonna put you on hold, and uh, producer Calum
is gonna pick up the phone and give you my
email address and send me some close up pictures of
those weeds and tell me you know we talked on

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the phone, and then I'll either confirm or change my
answer based on what I see.

Speaker 29 (02:41:54):
Okay, well, the problem is I'm not in that location
right now.

Speaker 3 (02:41:59):
Oh okay, but no problem nobody next week yeah no, no,
no rush, no rush, All right, thanks, I'm put you
on hold. Thanks, best, appreciate that very much. The folks
that in Chenned Forest know how to create gorgeous gardens.
I love going to in Chenna Forest. Every time I go,

(02:42:19):
it's like I've entered another world. It is just so cool. Today.
By the way, they're having their spring fling out in
Chnnon Forest. Danny Millican is me there talking about tomatoes.
He's new on board there and got another Danny it
in Chenned Forest out there. He'll be talking at ten am.
They're gonna have a dog aed option out there. Crafts

(02:42:40):
face painting for kids. You can help create your own
stunning living flower wreath with Amanda. Isn't that cool? Holy
Smoke Barbecue is going to be there there's music. Oh
my gosh, it's a shindig. Yeah, that's official. It's adig.
While you're out there, check out their house plants, check
out their roses. Check out their beautiful, beautiful selection of

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annuals and perennials and vegetables and herbs. Enchanted Forest is
on FM twenty seven fifty nine. If you're in Richmond
going towards Sugarland, it's off to the right on FM
twenty seven fifty nine. Here is the website Enchanted Forest,
Richmond TX dot com. Enchended Forest, Richmond, TX dot com.

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You gotta get out there. It's spring. Oh my gosh.
Make sure you've got plenty of room in your car,
because you're gonna you're gonna find a lot of stuff
you can't live without. That is for sure. We're gonna
go now out to spring and talk to Carol. Hello Carol,
Welcome to Guardline.

Speaker 18 (02:43:40):
Hi Skip, how are you.

Speaker 3 (02:43:43):
I'm good? Thank you.

Speaker 18 (02:43:46):
I have a question.

Speaker 29 (02:43:47):
I bought a mulberry at Lows on Clearance, and I'm
wondering if it's a bush or a tree and how
invasive they are.

Speaker 3 (02:43:59):
If it's true a mulberry, it's a tree and they
are in. They're invasive in the sense that birds eat
the seed and they fly around and poop the seed
and mulberries come up. There. A lot of plants disperse
that way, especially ones with berries. Now you know, as

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far as is it going to take over the whole neighborhood,
probably not, of course, But a lot of people grow
mulberries because they love the fruit, and so other people
grow them to bring the birds in. So you know,
it's up to you which every way you want to go,
But that's how they work.

Speaker 18 (02:44:37):
How big of a space do they need?

Speaker 28 (02:44:41):
Because I was wondering about planting at my front yard
or should I keep it to the back.

Speaker 3 (02:44:46):
Well, mulberries are a medium size tree to medium to
large size tree. You know, they're not giants. They're not
live oaks or anything, but they do develop some size
in height on them, and so there a deciduous tree
drops its leaves in the wintertime. And you know, there's

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several kinds of mulberries. There's one type that's a white mulberry.
It's not as common. There's Pakistan mulberry and others. And
I don't know which one you got, but whatever they are,
they're gonna fruit.

Speaker 11 (02:45:22):
Okay, and is it if I planted it about five
feet for my.

Speaker 3 (02:45:27):
It could be more than five feet from my driveway.
That should be okay, much more than five feet, yeah,
because it's gonna the trunk on those is going to
be you know, if you were to make a big
circle with your arms where your fingertips are touching that
the mulberry trunk's going to be that size roughly, and
so you want to I would get it ten feet
away from.

Speaker 5 (02:45:47):
The drive fet okay, okay.

Speaker 3 (02:45:51):
And this is all assuming that we truly are talking
about a mulberry Okay. But if that's if that's what
they told you it was, then out there you go.
All right, well, all right, thank you, you bet, appreciate
your call very much. You take care. Well, it's time
for me to take a quick break. Pat and Waller.

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You'll be our first stup when we come back. All right,
Welcome back, Welcome back to Gardenline. I'm your host, skip rictor.
We're here to help you have a bountiful garden, a
beautiful landscape. And this is important. More fun in the process,

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more fun in the process. Nitrophoss Imperial is the red bag.
The numbers are fifteen five ten. It is an outstanding
fertilizer for fast green up. When you put it down
and watered in, it dissolves away and the nutrients go
into the soil and that day the plant roots can
begin taking them up. It works really good for our

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early greenup when we're wanting to do that. Actually, although
it's a lawn furtlize, I mean you can use it
for a lot of different things. It's a good quality
three one two ratio fertilizer that a lot of kinds
of plants will benefit from. But you're going to find
nine to fives Imperial, the red bag, reddish orange bag. Actually,
you're going to find it in places like the M
and D out in Rosenberg on Avenue I. You're going

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to find it in an enchanted forest down on FM
twenty seven fifty nine, down in the Richmond Rosenberger on
I forty five North, like hiding and feed on Stubner Airline.
You'll find it there as well. And plans for all
seasons on Tumble Parkway. Easy to find it and it works.
It's all my schedule, by the way, I don't think

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I've talked about my schedule today much gardening with skip
dot com. That's the website gardening with Skip, that's me
dot com. There you'll find the lawn care schedule, which
is how to care for your lawn, how to make
the lawn happy and grow, and the lawn pest disease.
And we'd management schedule, which is everything that goes wrong
in the lawn and what to do about it and

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when about it and what do you use? Those are
both free, they're both multicolor easy to follow, and they've
been to spend a lot of time putting those together
based on research by turf scientists, by entomologists, by pan pathologists,
and others here in our region. And so I'm very
confident that if you'll follow that carefully, you will have

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a good success. We're going to go now out to
Pat in Waller, Texas. Hello, Pat, Welcome to garden Line. Hey,
good morning, how are you. I'm doing good? What's up
today in Waller, Texas?

Speaker 14 (02:48:34):
Yeah?

Speaker 31 (02:48:34):
So, just moved to Waller from Boston and brand new house,
build a great lawn. Where do I find good good
gardening supplies, you know, microlife or nitro foss I can't
find anything unless I drive forty five minutes thirty minutes
to Cyprus.

Speaker 3 (02:48:51):
Yeah, it's well, it's it's a challenge, you know, out
there in Water I don't know all the Waller stores
and things like that, so it's it's kind of hard
to tell you for sure, exactly have you tried if
you tried your hometown hardware there and Waller on two
ninety business, that's an ace store that might carry they

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have a lot of Scots products. And I'm trying to go, okay,
made in Texas. Yeah, I get you, I got you. Okay, Well, boy,
you might try to go into the Microlife Fertilizer web page.
It's Microlife Fertilizer dot com. And on there they've got
a where to buy button and on the where to

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buy button and find places all over. Last time I
looked at it, we got a big hole in the
map out in Wallerhamstead, that whole region out there where
you know that we just don't have a lot of
the the uh you know, better garden centers and things
where you're gonna typically find that context that maybe that
when you're gallivanting around, is there a direction you normally

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go into Houston or somewhere else that you pass by.

Speaker 31 (02:49:59):
I just go down I just go to ninety so
that's how I know Cyprus pretty well.

Speaker 3 (02:50:03):
But I appreciate all your insights. Yeah, thank you, all right,
Sorry we couldn't find somebody in your in your backyard
their path. Thanks for being a listener to gardening too,
give it take care. That is the case I get.
I get calls sometime for people that are that are
way out, you know, way out of the area, because
people listen to garden line all over I get I

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get calls out of state from people that are listening
on their computers and they want to know where can
I get that in my area? Well, you got to
call the company and see what some of the companies
will ship too. By the way, uh, you know where
that is appropriate for what you're trying to purchase. Airloom
soils is up in the Porter area. That's where they

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make airloom soils, and you can go to the website
Heirloomsoils dot com. Heirloomsoils dot Com is an excellent product.
And I shouldn't say product, I should say products because
Heirloom Soils has a wide variety of everything. We had
someone earlier that wanted something for acid loving plants. Do

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you want a landscape bed mix. Do you want a
rose soil? Do you want a potting sal like the works?
Do you want to cactus in succulent soil? Do you
want veggie and herbs see what I'm talking about fruit
berry and citrus mix. These are all heirloom soil products.
Maybe you just want expanded shale or expanded show mixed
with compost for those heavy clays. We deal with Airloom Soils,

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they've got it all. You can go out to porter
and load it up on your truck or trailer. You
can call them and have them deliver it. You can
have them dump it on the driveway, or you can
have them bring it out in a supersack. A supersack
is a big giant sack that holds a cubic yard
and they literally just bring it out and set it
on the driveway. You can buy several. In fact, I

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think they have a three sack minimum for delivery because
it takes quite a bit to deliver to some distance, especially,
but just check them out. Airloom Sols. If you go
to Airloomsoils dot airlomsols dot com, you can learn all
about their products from bulk deliveries to the mulches, to
the compost products, to even things in small bags, you know,

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like their little potting soil the works. You can get
very small bags as well. Uh makes it easy. And
they have a soil calculator that is outstanding. It is
really good, really good soil calculator. And that is nice
because you can figure out what you want. For example,
how about this, how many five gallon buckets are in

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a cubic yard? That sole calculator will tell you. What
about wheelbarrow loads? What about you know? What about all
the I've got a bed that I need to put
eight inches of so mix in and it's ten feet
long and four feet wide. How much do I need?
That's the calculator. It's right there on the website. It's
easy to do no matter what I mean. If you're

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buying gravel, that calculator still applies, so check it out.
Airlombsols of Texas dot com quality products. They're also available
by the bag all over town. Many places carry their products,
so it's easy to find heirloom no matter where you live.
When we're talking about you know, quality mixes and things,

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I have to remind you that when you are looking
for one single thing you can do to your lawn
to really breed new life into the the churf top
dressing with compost and core aeration as a combo is
the way to go. Core Aeration means you pop a
plug of soil out of the ground and drop it
on the surface. When you when your lawn's been core aerated,

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it looks like you had a little miniature dog convention
last week on the lawn. I mean it's all these
little yeah, you get the idea. Those melt away down
into the side. They help break down thatch too. By
the way, cor aeration is the single best way to
break down that. But we do it because it gets
oxygen in the soil. It literally breathes life down into
the root system. Oxygen in the soil means the roots proliferates.

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Proliferating means water holding capacity increases. It means the nutrient
availability increases. It means the plant roots thrive, and when
the roots thrive, the plant thrives. You've heard me over
and over on guard Line say brown stuff before green stuff,
which just means get the soil right, then put the

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plants in. And that's the recipes for success. Brown plus
green equals success. Okay, when you do corroration, you are
doing brown stuff before green stuff to your lawn. You
are basically making the soil better and your lawn just
gets better. Yes, watering is important, Yes, fertilizing is important.
But when you do corroration followed by compost top dressing,

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you've set it up for success. And if you are
up in the northwest quadrant of the Houston area, and
by that I mean Interstate forty five and Interstate ten,
those are the north south, east west lines northwest quadrant.
Green Pro is your company. Green Pro is out of Magnolia.
They serve an area. Yeah, about forty five minutes from Magnolia,
forty five miles from Magnolia. I shouldn't say forty five

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minutes in Houston. Forty five minutes. Could be across the
street in Houston about forty five miles from Magnolia, So Spring, Cyprus,
the Woodlands, Conroe, Willis now you know, across the Magnolia
Montgomery down to Katie in West Houston and so on.
Northwest quadrant. Green Pro they will do correoration with top
quality equipment. They will bring out a top quality compost

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top dress and put it down with top quality equipment.
Think it's a good even application down and what you're
going to see as the results. Now, go ahead and
call them and they're busy, call them and get scheduled.
It's not something you have to do now. In fact,
you wait and do it in early summer. You can
do it late spring. Whatever. It's not a you have
to do it right this moment, but you need to

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get on the schedule and you need to get it done.
Greenprotexas dot Com Greenpro Texas dot Com eight three two
three five to one zero zero three two two three
five to one zero zero three two. Well, I'm looking
at the clock going guardline is about done today, We're

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just about done with the show. I want to remind
you that I'm going to be at the Syfair Home
Show at the Berry Center. Sifer Home Show at the
Berry Center in Northwest Houston today from twelve to two.
In fact, when I quit talking on this microphone, I'm
going to be getting set to head out and go
that direction. I will be answering gardening questions after I

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give a little talk on success in the spring. The
Syfer Home Show is an awesome home show at the
Berry Center. It just is one of my favorite ones
I go to each year. I'll be out there. I'll
bring some books to sign if you're interested. I'll also
bring some products to give away, but mainly show up.
Let's get face to face and talk about how to
have a more bountiful garden and a more beautiful landscape.

(02:56:53):
You got pictures, you got samples, Grab some weeds, put
them in a bag. That way, you're not waving your
hands describing them, and I'm, in my mind, probably be
picturing something else. We'll make sure we get you the
right solutions to what you need things to identify. Bring
me a picture. I always use this example. But you know,
here's a shady area and I can't get anything to
grow there, what would bloom there?

Speaker 6 (02:57:13):
And so on?

Speaker 3 (02:57:13):
Oh, bring me a picture. I'll answer that question and
we'll have a good time. We always do. I love
home shows. I love visiting with people that listen to
Garden Line. You know that's one of my happy places,
sitting down in the garden watching the interaction of plants
and insects and things. That's a happy place. An Okra

(02:57:34):
patch is a happy place for me. I know, you
know it's weird, but it is and then talking to gardeners.
I've been doing this a long time. I started with
Agri